Python Client for Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

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Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is a highly available,hardened Google Cloud service running actual Microsoft AD that enables you tomanage authentication and authorization for your AD-dependent workloads,automate AD server maintenance and security configuration, and connect youron-premises AD domain to the cloud.

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

  1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

  2. Enable billing for your project.

  3. Enable the Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

  4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-managed-identities

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-managed-identities

Next Steps

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Last updated 2025-10-30 UTC.