This topic describes the basic information about Cloud Firewall API and the precautions for using the API. For more information about how to call Alibaba Cloud API operations, see Overview.
Version description
Version | Description |
Recommended |
Endpoints
For more information about endpoints, see Endpoints.
Identities
Identity | Supported |
Yes | |
RAM user (recommended) | Yes |
RAM role (recommended) | Yes |
We recommend that you use a RAM user or RAM role to call API operations. Before you use a RAM user or RAM role to call API operations, grant permissions to the RAM user or RAM role.
Style
Remote procedure call (RPC) style For more information about API styles, see API styles.
Call methods
Call method | Supported | Description |
Alibaba Cloud SDK | Yes | For more information about the programming languages that are supported by Cloud Firewall SDK and the methods to install dependencies, visit Cloud Firewall SDK. Note For more information about how to use Alibaba Cloud SDKs to call Cloud Firewall API, see Alibaba Cloud SDKs. |
Alibaba Cloud CLI | No | For more information about how to use Alibaba Cloud CLI to call Cloud Firewall API, see Alibaba Cloud CLI. |
Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) | Partially supported | For more information about how to use ROS to call Cloud Firewall API, see ROS. For more information about the Cloud Firewall API operations that you can call by using ROS, see List of resource types by service. |
Terraform | Partially supported | For more information about how to use Terraform to call Cloud Firewall API, see Terraform. For more information about the Cloud Firewall API operations that you can call by using Terraform, see API operations. |
Custom encapsulation | Yes | For more information about how to encapsulate custom APIs, see Overview. |
We recommend that you use Alibaba Cloud SDKs to call Cloud Firewall API.