Confluent Keys (byok/v1) API
[](#section/Versioning/API-Lifecycle-Policy)`Key` objects represent customer managed keys on dedicated Confluent Cloud clusters.Keys are used to protect data at rest stored in your dedicated Confluent Cloud clusters on AWS, Azure, and GCP.This API allows you to upload and retrieve self-managed keys on Confluent Cloud.Related guide: [Confluent Cloud Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Management API](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/clusters/byok/index.html).## The Keys Model## Quotas and LimitsThis resource is subject to the [following quotas](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/quotas/overview.html):| Quota | Description || --- | --- || `byok.max_keys.per_org` | BYOK keys in one Confluent Cloud organisation. |
Confluent Keys (byok/v1) API is one of 127 APIs that Confluent publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Keys (byok/v1). The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and an API reference.
This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.confluent.cloud.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 6
Confluent Keys (byok/v1) API declares
6 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (cloud-api-key).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (confluent-sts-access-token) using the clientCredentials flow.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (global-api-key).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (resource-api-key).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (external-access-token) using the clientCredentials flow.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 4 scopes.
cloud-api-key— Authenticate with Cloud API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the Cloud API Key ID as the username and Cloud API Key Secret as the password.confluent-sts-access-token— Authenticate with Confluent API using this credentials (JSON Web Tokens) following OAuth 2.0.global-api-key— Authenticate with Global API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the Global API Key ID as the username and Global API Key Secret as the password.resource-api-key— Authenticate with resource-specific API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the resource-specific API Key ID as the username and resource-specific API Key Secret…external-access-token— Authenticate with Confluent API using this credentials (JSON Web Tokens) following OAuth 2.0.oauth— Authenticate with OAuth 2.0. Currently this is only supported for partner APIs.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
[](section/Versioning/API-Lifecycle-Policy) Key objects represent customer…
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are byok.v1.Key (9 properties), Error (8 properties), ObjectMeta (5 properties), ListMeta (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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