Digital Ocean Certificates API
In order to perform SSL termination on load balancers, DigitalOcean offerstwo types of [SSL certificate management](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/teams/manage-certificates):* **Custom**: User-generated certificates may be uploaded to DigitalOceanwhere they will be placed in a fully encrypted and isolated storage system.* **Let's Encrypt**: Certificates may be automatically generated byDigitalOcean utilizing an integration with Let's Encrypt, the free andopen certificate authority. These certificates will also be automaticallyrenewed as required.
Digital Ocean Certificates API is one of 37 APIs that Digital Ocean publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Certificates. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 15 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.digitalocean.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Digital Ocean Certificates API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer_auth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearer_auth— OAuth Authentication In order to interact with the DigitalOcean API, you or your application must authenticate. The DigitalOcean API handles this through OAuth…
Paths & Operations 4
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
In order to perform SSL termination on load balancers, DigitalOcean offers two types of [SSL certificate management](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/teams/manage-certificat…
Schemas 15
The contract defines 15 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are certificate (8 properties), error (3 properties), certificate_create_base (2 properties), link_to_prev_page (1 property). 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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