Board Review: Management Plane Namespace Review Container Service Prepared Image Specifications

[aboodasfari]

Thank you for submitting this review request. Thorough review of your management library namespaces ensures that your library names are consistent with the guidelines and the consumers of your management library have a consistently good experience when using Azure.

To ensure consistency, all language library names will generally be reviewed together.

Contacts and Timeline

• Responsible service team: Azure Kubernetes Service
• Main contacts: Abdul Asfari (abdulasfari)
• Expected code complete date: July 2026
• Expected release date: July 2026

About the Service (required)

• Link to documentation introducing/describing the service: N/A — brand new feature, public docs not yet published
• Link to the service REST APIs Specs: containerservice: PreparedImageSpecification 2026-02-02-preview API updates azure-rest-api-specs#43365
• Link to GitHub issue for previous review sessions, if applicable: N/A

Namespace Proposals (required per language)

• .NET: Azure.ResourceManager.ContainerServicePreparedImageSpecification
• Java: azure-resourcemanager-containerservice-preparedimgspec (com.azure.resourcemanager.containerservice.preparedimgspec)
• Go/Golang: sdk/resourcemanager/containerservicepreparedimagespecification/armcontainerservicepreparedimagespecification
• JavaScript: @azure/arm-containerservicepreparedimagespecification
• Python: azure-mgmt-containerservicepreparedimagespecification

Thank you!

[weidongxu-microsoft]

Java namespace may be too long. We got many path in SDK repo over 256 characters.
https://dev.azure.com/azure-sdk/public/_build/results?buildId=6501680&view=logs&jobId=b70e5e73-bbb6-5567-0939-8415943fadb9&j=b70e5e73-bbb6-5567-0939-8415943fadb9&t=74bd06c3-0f35-56f9-4379-f6be6cc8b9a5

E.g.

sdk/containerservicepreparedimagespecification/azure-resourcemanager-containerservice-preparedimgspec/src/main/java/com/azure/resourcemanager/containerservice/preparedimgspec/models/PreparedImageSpecificationManagedIdentityProfile.java

Though part of the reason is the wrong service-dir = containerservicepreparedimagespecification
I've asked service to change, and see whether we had improvement after the fix.

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<--- update. Java can live with azure-resourcemanager-containerservice-preparedimgspec. It is near the limit but we should be able to have it just under the limit.

[aboodasfari]

Update: Windows path-length CI failures on the initial SDK PRs (including the paths @weidongxu-microsoft flagged above) require shortening these names before regeneration. Filed Azure/azure-rest-api-specs#44338 which:

1. Adopts preparedimgspec consistently across all languages (matches the existing Java abbreviation and the nodecustom precedent).
2. Groups Java under sdk/containerservice/ per Java layout convention.

Longest Java model path drops from ~262 → 224 chars.

Updated namespace proposals:

• .NET: Azure.ResourceManager.ContainerServicePreparedImgSpec
• Java: azure-resourcemanager-containerservice-preparedimgspec (com.azure.resourcemanager.containerservice.preparedimgspec) — unchanged
• Go/Golang: sdk/resourcemanager/containerservicepreparedimgspec/armcontainerservicepreparedimgspec
• JavaScript: @azure/arm-containerservicepreparedimgspec
• Python: azure-mgmt-containerservicepreparedimgspec

Thanks!