Method: sslCerts.insert

Creates an SSL certificate and returns it along with the private key and server certificate authority. The new certificate will not be usable until the instance is restarted.

HTTP request

POST https://sqladmin.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/sslCerts

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project

string

Project ID of the project that contains the instance.
instance

string

Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of SslCertsInsertRequest.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

SslCert insert response.

JSON representation 
{
  "kind": string,
  "operation": {
    object (Operation)
  },
  "serverCaCert": {
    object (SslCert)
  },
  "clientCert": {
    object (SslCertDetail)
  }
}
Fields
kind

string

This is always sql#sslCertsInsert.
operation

object (Operation)

The operation to track the ssl certs insert request.
serverCaCert

object (SslCert)

The server Certificate Authority's certificate. If this is missing you can force a new one to be generated by calling resetSslConfig method on instances resource.
clientCert

object (SslCertDetail)

The new client certificate and private key.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/sqlservice.admin

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

SslCertsInsertRequest

SslCerts insert request.

JSON representation 
{
  "commonName": string
}
Fields
commonName

string

User supplied name. Must be a distinct name from the other certificates for this instance.

SslCertDetail

SslCertDetail.

JSON representation 
{
  "certInfo": {
    object (SslCert)
  },
  "certPrivateKey": string
}
Fields
certInfo

object (SslCert)

The public information about the cert.
certPrivateKey

string

The private key for the client cert, in pem format. Keep private in order to protect your security.