Method: keyHandles.create

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
• IAM Permissions
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Full name: projects.locations.keyHandles.create

Creates a new KeyHandle, triggering the provisioning of a new CryptoKey for CMEK use with the given resource type in the configured key project and the same location. operations.get should be used to resolve the resulting long-running operation and get the resulting KeyHandle and CryptoKey.

HTTP request

Choose a location:

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POST https://cloudkms.googleapis.com/v1/{parent=projects/*/locations/*}/keyHandles

The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent	string Required. Name of the resource project and location to create the KeyHandle in, e.g. projects/{PROJECT_ID}/locations/{LOCATION}.

Query parameters

Parameters
keyHandleId	string Optional. Id of the KeyHandle. Must be unique to the resource project and location. If not provided by the caller, a new UUID is used.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of KeyHandle.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

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

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the parent resource:

• cloudkms.keyHandles.create

For more information, see the IAM documentation.