---
title: "Create Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster"
method: POST
path: "/v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies#Decrypt"
tags: ["Event Gateway Virtual Cluster Consume Policies"]
---

# Create Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster

`POST /v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies#Decrypt`

Creates a new consume policy associated with the specified Event Gateway virtual cluster.

## Query parameters

- `before` string, uuid
- `after` string, uuid

## Request body

- EventGatewayDecryptPolicy — Decrypts Kafka records or keys using AES_256_GCM. Keys are therefore 256 bits long.
  - `type` 'decrypt', required — The type name of the policy.
  - `name` string — A unique user-defined name of the policy.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the policy.
  - `enabled` boolean — Whether the policy is enabled.
  - `labels` Labels — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".
  - `config` EventGatewayDecryptPolicyConfig, required — The configuration of the decrypt policy.
    - `failure_mode` 'error' | 'passthrough', required — Describes how to handle failing encryption or decryption. Use `error` if the record should be rejected if encryption or decryption fails. Use `passthrough` to ignore encryption or decryption failure and continue proxying the record.
    - `key_sources` EventGatewayKeySource[], required — Describes how to find a symmetric key for decryption.
      - union — A key source that describes how to find a symmetric key for encryption or decryption. It can be an AWS KMS key source that uses a KMS to find a symmetric key, or a static key source that uses a static symmetric key provided as secrets.
        - EventGatewayAWSKeySource — A key source that uses an AWS KMS to find a symmetric key. Load KMS credentials from the environment. See [aws docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-rust/latest/dg/credproviders.html#credproviders-default-credentials-provider-chain) for more information about how credential retrieval.
          - `type` 'aws', required
        - EventGatewayStaticKeySource — A key source that uses static symmetric keys.
          - `type` 'static', required
    - `part_of_record` DecryptionRecordPart[], required — Describes the parts of a record to decrypt.
  - `condition` string — A string containing the boolean expression that determines whether the policy is applied.

## Response `201`

Created

- EventGatewayPolicy — A policy associated with an Event Gateway.
  - `type` string, required — The type name of the policy.
  - `name` string — A unique user-defined name of the policy.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the policy.
  - `enabled` boolean — Whether the policy is enabled.
  - `labels` Labels — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".
  - `id` string, uuid, required — The unique identifier of the policy.
  - `config` object, nullable — The configuration of the policy.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity creation date.
  - `parent_policy_id` string, uuid, nullable — The unique identifier of the parent policy, if any.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity update date.
  - `condition` string — A string containing the boolean expression that determines whether the policy is applied.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden

---

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