Microsoft Azure ResourceManagementClient
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For Agents
Submit and manage Azure Resource Manager template deployments, resource groups, resources, and tags across subscriptions and management groups.
Use for: I want to deploy an ARM template to a resource group, Validate an ARM template before deploying it, List all resource groups in a subscription, Move a resource between resource groups
Not supported: Does not manage identity, billing, or resource-specific data planes — use for ARM control-plane deployments, resource groups, and resource-level operations only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for ResourceManagementClient, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Azure Resource Management API is the control plane for ARM deployments, resource groups, individual resources, and tags across subscriptions and management groups. Agents can submit and validate ARM template deployments at any scope, list and update resources by id, manage resource groups and their tags, and inspect deployment operations to debug failures. It is the foundational API for everything Azure builds on top of subscriptions.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the ResourceManagementClient to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the ResourceManagementClient, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with ResourceManagementClient API.
Create or update an ARM template deployment at subscription, resource group, or management group scope
Validate an ARM template before submitting it to detect schema or quota issues
List, move, and delete resources across resource groups within a subscription
Manage resource groups including creation, tag updates, deletion, and exports
Inspect individual deployment operations to pinpoint which resource caused a failure
Cancel an in-progress ARM deployment that is taking too long or failing
Use Cases
Patterns agents use ResourceManagementClient API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Infrastructure-as-Code Deployment
Platform teams use ResourceManagementClient to submit ARM template deployments from CI/CD pipelines or agent workflows. The API accepts a template plus parameters and returns a deployment resource the caller can poll until completion. Validation can be run separately first to catch schema or quota issues before consuming a deployment slot. Deployments scope to subscription, resource group, or management group depending on what the template provisions.
PUT /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{rg}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{name} with a template body and poll the deployment until provisioningState is Succeeded
Failure Forensics on Stuck Deployments
When an ARM deployment fails, an operator needs to see which specific resource caused the failure. The deployment operations endpoint returns one record per resource the deployment attempted, including provisioning state, error code, and the target resource id. Agents can pull this data to summarise the failure or open a remediation ticket without re-running the deployment.
GET deployment operations for deployment infra-prod-42 in resource group rg-prod and return the operation entries where provisioningState equals Failed
Resource Group Lifecycle and Tagging
FinOps and governance teams use the resource group endpoints to enforce tagging standards, export templates, and clean up empty resource groups. The API supports creating a resource group, patching its tags in place, listing the resources it contains, and deleting it. Tag updates are applied without recreating the group so existing automation is unaffected.
PATCH /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{rg} with tags {costCenter: "42", env: "prod"} and verify the response echoes the new tag set
Cross-Resource-Group Resource Moves
When teams reorganise Azure subscriptions, they need to move resources from one resource group or subscription to another. The moveResources operation accepts a list of resource ids and a target resource group, performs the move asynchronously, and returns a long-running operation handle. The API also supports validating a move first to confirm all resource types support relocation.
POST moveResources on resource group rg-old with target rg-new and a list of three storage account ids, then poll the long-running operation until it completes
Agent-Driven ARM Operations via Jentic
Through Jentic, an infrastructure agent can search for deploy arm template, load the deployment input schema, populate template and parameters, and execute the call with a managed Azure OAuth token. The same flow extends to validation, cancellation, and operation inspection so a single agent can own a full deployment lifecycle without writing ARM SDK code.
Search Jentic for deploy arm template to resource group, load the deployment PUT schema, execute it with subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, and a template body, then poll the deployment to completion
Key Endpoints
78 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for resourcemanagementclient, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}
Create or update a resource-group-scoped deployment
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/validate
Validate an ARM template before deployment
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/cancel
Cancel a running deployment
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/operations
List operations for a deployment
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}
Create or update a resource group
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{sourceResourceGroupName}/moveResources
Move resources to another resource group
GET
/providers
List all resource providers
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}
Create or update a resource-group-scoped deployment
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/validate
Validate an ARM template before deployment
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/cancel
Cancel a running deployment
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{deploymentName}/operations
List operations for a deployment
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}
Create or update a resource group
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{sourceResourceGroupName}/moveResources
Move resources to another resource group
GET
/providers
List all resource providers
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Azure service principal credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped OAuth tokens for the management.azure.com audience only — the underlying client secret never enters the agent context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search by intent such as deploy arm template or move azure resources, and Jentic returns the matching ResourceManagementClient operation with its full input schema, including the right scope-specific path for subscription, resource group, or management group.
Time to first call
Direct integration: 3-5 days to handle MSAL, ARM long-running operation polling, and per-scope path branching. Through Jentic: under an hour to search, load, and execute a deployment.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using ResourceManagementClient API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for ResourceManagementClient?
Microsoft Azure does not publish a single unified OpenAPI specification for the Resource Manager control plane. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call ResourceManagementClient via structured tooling. It is validated against the live Azure Resource Manager API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.
What authentication does ResourceManagementClient use?
It uses Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 via the azure_auth flow defined in the spec. Acquire a bearer token for https://management.azure.com/.default and pass it as Authorization: Bearer. Jentic stores the underlying service principal in its vault and the agent only sees a scoped token.
Can I validate an ARM template with this API before deploying?
Yes. POST to /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{rg}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{name}/validate with the same body you would send to PUT. The service returns the same validation errors it would have produced during deployment without consuming any quota.
How do I cancel a stuck ARM deployment?
POST to /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{rg}/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/{name}/cancel. The deployment moves into a Cancelling state. Resources already provisioned remain in place — cancellation does not roll back completed steps.
What are the rate limits for ResourceManagementClient?
Azure Resource Manager applies subscription-level throttling: roughly 12,000 reads and 1,200 writes per hour, with deployment-specific quotas of 800 deployments per resource group history. Throttled responses come back as HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header.
How do I move a resource between resource groups via Jentic?
Search Jentic for move azure resources between resource groups, call client.load on the moveResources POST operation, and execute it with the source resource group, target resource group id, and an array of resource ids. Jentic injects the OAuth token and returns a long-running operation handle to poll.
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