---
title: "Create SSH certificate authority"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/sshcertificateauthorities"
tags: ["SSH certificate authorities"]
---

# Create SSH certificate authority

`POST /api/v2/sshcertificateauthorities`

Create a new SSH certificate authority.

## Request body

- SshCertificateAuthorityV2Create — An SSH certificate authority creation request.
  - `metadata` ResourceMetadata, required — Metadata required for all API resource reads and writes.
    - `name` string, required — A valid Kubernetes label value, typically used for resource names that can be indexed in the database.
    - `description` string — The resource description, this optionally augments the name with more context.
    - `tags` Tag[] — A list of tags.
      - `name` string, required — A unique tag name.
      - `value` string, required — The value of the tag.
  - `spec` SshCertificateAuthorityV2CreateSpec, required — An OpenSSH user certificate authority trust anchor.
    - `publicKey` string, required — A single-line OpenSSH-formatted CA public key.
    - `organizationId` string, required — The organization the SSH certificate authority belongs to.
    - `projectId` string, required — The project the SSH certificate authority belongs to.

## Response `201`

An SSH certificate authority.

- SshCertificateAuthorityV2Read — An SSH certificate authority.
  - `metadata` ProjectScopedResourceReadMetadata, required — Metadata required for all API resource reads and writes.
    - `name` string, required — A valid Kubernetes label value, typically used for resource names that can be indexed in the database.
    - `description` string — The resource description, this optionally augments the name with more context.
    - `tags` Tag[] — A list of tags.
      - `name` string, required — A unique tag name.
      - `value` string, required — The value of the tag.
    - `id` string, required — The unique resource ID.
    - `creationTime` string, date-time, required — The time the resource was created.
    - `createdBy` string — The user who created the resource.
    - `modifiedTime` string, date-time — The time a resource was updated.
    - `modifiedBy` string — The user who updated the resource.
    - `deletionTime` string, date-time — The time the resource was deleted.
    - `provisioningStatus` 'unknown' | 'provisioning' | 'provisioned' | 'deprovisioning' | 'error', required — The provisioning state of a resource.
    - `healthStatus` 'unknown' | 'healthy' | 'degraded' | 'error', required — The health state of a resource.
    - `organizationId` string, required — The organization identifier the resource belongs to.
    - `projectId` string, required — The project identifier the resource belongs to.
  - `spec` SshCertificateAuthorityV2Spec, required — An OpenSSH user certificate authority trust anchor.
    - `publicKey` string, required — A single-line OpenSSH-formatted CA public key.

## Other responses

- `400` — Request body failed schema validation, or the request does not contain all the required fields.
- `401` — Authentication failed or the access token has expired.
- `403` — Request was denied by authorization, this may be caused by the authorization token not having the required scope for an API, or the user doesn't have the necessary privileges on the provider platform.
- `422` — The provided request was syntactically correct but the instruction was unable to be processed due to semantic errors.
- `500` — An unexpected or unhandled error occurred. This may be a transient error and may succeed on a retry. If this isn't the case, please report it as an issue.

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