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Kong Certificates API

A certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key. These objects are used by Kong Gateway to handle SSL/TLS termination for encrypted requests, or for use as a trusted CA store when validating peer certificate of client/service.Certificates are optionally associated with SNI objects to tie a cert/key pair to one or more hostnames.If intermediate certificates are required in addition to the main certificate, they should be concatenated together into one string.

Kong Certificates API is one of 139 APIs that Kong publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Certificates. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, an API reference, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 9 operations across 4 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.14.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, {protocol}://{hostname}:{port}{path}.

9 operations 4 paths 5 schemas 2 DELETE3 GET2 POST2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
3.14.0
Base URL
https://konghq.com/
Authentication
API Key
Contact
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Kong Certificates API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Kong-Admin-Token (adminToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 9

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 2 DELETE, 3 GET, 2 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Certificates 9

A certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key. These objects are used by Kong Gateway to handle SSL/TLS ter…

POST
/{workspace}/certificates
Create a new Certificate
create-certificate 1 param body → 201401
DELETE
/{workspace}/certificates/{CertificateId}
Delete a Certificate
delete-certificate 3 params → 204401
GET
/{workspace}/certificates/{CertificateId}
Get a Certificate
get-certificate 2 params → 200401404
PUT
/{workspace}/certificates/{CertificateId}
Upsert a Certificate
upsert-certificate 2 params body → 200401
GET
/v2/control-planes/{controlPlaneId}/core-entities/certificates
List all Certificates
list-certificate 4 params → 200401
POST
/v2/control-planes/{controlPlaneId}/core-entities/certificates
Create a new Certificate
create-certificate 1 param body → 201401
DELETE
/v2/control-planes/{controlPlaneId}/core-entities/certificates/{CertificateId}
Delete a Certificate
delete-certificate 3 params → 204401
GET
/v2/control-planes/{controlPlaneId}/core-entities/certificates/{CertificateId}
Get a Certificate
get-certificate 2 params → 200401404
PUT
/v2/control-planes/{controlPlaneId}/core-entities/certificates/{CertificateId}
Upsert a Certificate
upsert-certificate 2 params body → 200401

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Certificate (9 properties), Certificate_2 (9 properties), GatewayUnauthorizedError (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PaginationOffsetResponse
string
Offset is used to paginate through the API. Provide this value to the next list operation to fetch the next page
GatewayUnauthorizedError
object
2 properties 2 required
Certificate_2
object
A certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key. These objects are used by Kong to handle…
9 properties 2 required
Certificate
object
A certificate object represents a public certificate, and can be optionally paired with the corresponding private key. These objects are used by Kong to handle…
9 properties 2 required
PaginationNextResponse
string
URI to the next page (may be null)

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

kong-certificates-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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