- NAME
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- gcloud alpha topic client-certificate - client certificate authorization supplementary help
- DESCRIPTION
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(ALPHA)
Client certificate authorization supplementary help.Device Certificate Authorization (DCA) enables Context-aware access to identify devices by their X.509 certificates. DCA for Google Cloud APIs is the second in a series of releases that provides administrators the capability to protect access to their Google Cloud resources with device certificates. This feature builds on top of the existing Context-aware access suite (Endpoint Verification, Access Context Manager, and VPC Service Controls) and ensures that only users on trusted devices with a Google-generated certificate are able to access Google Cloud APIs. This provides a stronger signal of device identity (device certificate verification), and protects users from credential theft to accidental loss by only granting access when credentials and the original device certificate are presented.
To use this feature, organizations can follow the instructions below to install an endpoint verification agent to devices:
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Automatically deploy endpoint verification
(https://support.google.com/a/answer/9007320#)
- Via Chrome Policy for the extension
- 3rd party image/software distribution tools for the Native Helper on macOS and Windows
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Let users install endpoint verification themselves from the Chrome Webstore
(https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9018161#install)
- Users would also be prompted to install the Native Helper as well
enterprise-certificate-proxy can be installed by running
$ gcloud components install enterprise-certificate-proxy
.In order to use enterprise-certificate-proxy it must first be configured. By default the configuration should be written to
~/.config/gcloud/certificate_config.json
.The enterprise-certificate-proxy schema is documented on the GitHub project page. Each operating system that gcloud supports uses a different key store. The certificate_config may contain multiple OS configurations.
Provisioning the key stores is not in scope for this document.
Run
so that the gcloud CLI will load the certificate and send it to services. Some services do not support client certificate authorization yet. When the gcloud CLI sends requests to such services, the client certificate will be ignored.$ gcloud config set context_aware/use_client_certificate True
The following is the list of services which do NOT support client certificate authorization in the installed version of the gcloud CLI.
SERVICE VERSION NOTES --- --- --- baremetalsolution v1 baremetalsolution v2 cloudshell v1 cloudshell v1alpha1 datafusion v1beta1 domains v1 domains v1alpha2 domains v1beta1 edgecontainer v1 edgecontainer v1alpha edgecontainer v1beta edgenetwork v1 edgenetwork v1alpha1 ids v1 networksecurity v1 networksecurity v1alpha1 networksecurity v1beta1 networkservices v1 networkservices v1alpha1 networkservices v1beta1 policytroubleshooter v1 policytroubleshooter v1beta policytroubleshooter v2alpha1 policytroubleshooter v3 policytroubleshooter v3alpha policytroubleshooter v3beta publicca v1 publicca v1alpha1 publicca v1beta1 --- --- --- Note: iap_tunnel is a special service gcloud CLI uses to create the IAP tunnel. For example,
can start a tunnel to Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy through which another process can create a connection (e.g. SSH, RDP) to a Google Compute Engine instance. Client certificate authorization is supported in tunnel creation.gcloud compute start-iap-tunnel
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Automatically deploy endpoint verification
(https://support.google.com/a/answer/9007320#)
- NOTES
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This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this
command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,
you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access
allowlist. These variants are also available:
gcloud topic client-certificate
gcloud beta topic client-certificate
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Last updated 2024-02-06 UTC.