Managed Clusters - List Cluster Admin Credentials

Service:: AKS

API Version:: 2025-08-01

Lists the admin credentials of a managed cluster.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/{resourceName}/listClusterAdminCredential?api-version=2025-08-01

With optional parameters:

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/{resourceName}/listClusterAdminCredential?api-version=2025-08-01&server-fqdn={server-fqdn}

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
resourceName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 63 pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9]$\|^[a-zA-Z0-9][-_a-zA-Z0-9]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]$	The name of the managed cluster resource.
subscriptionId	path	True	string (uuid)	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.
server-fqdn	query		string	server fqdn type for credentials to be returned

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	CredentialResults	OK
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Get Managed Cluster

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/clustername1/listClusterAdminCredential?api-version=2025-08-01

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.containerservice import ContainerServiceClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-containerservice
# USAGE
    python managed_clusters_list_cluster_admin_credentials.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = ContainerServiceClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    )

    response = client.managed_clusters.list_cluster_admin_credentials(
        resource_group_name="rg1",
        resource_name="clustername1",
    )
    print(response)


# x-ms-original-file: specification/containerservice/resource-manager/Microsoft.ContainerService/aks/stable/2025-08-01/examples/ManagedClustersListClusterAdminCredentials.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "kubeconfigs": [
    {
      "name": "credentialName1",
      "value": "Y3JlZGVudGlhbFZhbHVlMQ=="
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
CredentialResult	The credential result response.
CredentialResults	The list credential result response.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response

CredentialResult

Object

The credential result response.

Name	Type	Description
name	string	The name of the credential.
value	string (byte)	Base64-encoded Kubernetes configuration file.

CredentialResults

Object

The list credential result response.

Name	Type	Description
kubeconfigs	CredentialResult[]	Base64-encoded Kubernetes configuration file.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

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Managed Clusters - List Cluster Admin Credentials

URI Parameters

Responses

Security

azure_auth

Scopes

Examples

Get Managed Cluster

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

CredentialResult

CredentialResults

ErrorAdditionalInfo

ErrorDetail

ErrorResponse