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Vaults

Create a new Vault

Create a new Vault

post/{workspace}/vaults

Path parameters

workspacestring required
Example:team-payments

The name of the workspace

Request body

configobject nullable

The configuration properties for the Vault which can be found on the vaults' documentation page.

created_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was created.

descriptionstring nullable

The description of the Vault entity.

idstring nullable

A string representing a UUID (universally unique identifier).

namestring required

The name of the Vault that's going to be added. Currently, the Vault implementation must be installed in every Kong instance.

prefixstring required

The unique prefix (or identifier) for this Vault configuration. The prefix is used to load the right Vault configuration and implementation when referencing secrets with the other entities.

tagsstring[] nullable

An optional set of strings associated with the Vault for grouping and filtering.

updated_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was last updated.

Example request

{
  "config": {
    "prefix": "ENV_PREFIX"
  },
  "description": "environment variable based vault",
  "id": "2747d1e5-8246-4f65-a939-b392f1ee17f8",
  "name": "env",
  "prefix": "env",
  "tags": [
    "foo",
    "bar"
  ]
}

Response

Successfully created Vault

configobject nullable

The configuration properties for the Vault which can be found on the vaults' documentation page.

created_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was created.

descriptionstring nullable

The description of the Vault entity.

idstring nullable

A string representing a UUID (universally unique identifier).

namestring required

The name of the Vault that's going to be added. Currently, the Vault implementation must be installed in every Kong instance.

prefixstring required

The unique prefix (or identifier) for this Vault configuration. The prefix is used to load the right Vault configuration and implementation when referencing secrets with the other entities.

tagsstring[] nullable

An optional set of strings associated with the Vault for grouping and filtering.

updated_atinteger nullable

Unix epoch when the resource was last updated.

Example response

{
  "config": {
    "prefix": "ENV_PREFIX"
  },
  "description": "environment variable based vault",
  "id": "2747d1e5-8246-4f65-a939-b392f1ee17f8",
  "name": "env",
  "prefix": "env",
  "tags": [
    "foo",
    "bar"
  ]
}