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Certificate Management Service:Use OpenAPI

Last Updated:Feb 09, 2026

This topic provides basic information about the Certificate Management Service OpenAPI.

For more information about how to use Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI, see OpenAPI.

Version guide

Product

Version number

Description

SSL Certificate, Certificate Repository

2020-04-07

Recommended

Private Certificate

2020-06-30

Recommended

Endpoint description

An endpoint is a service address that a client can use to access a service. It is typically a public URL provided by a service provider (SP). The URL specifies the protocol, hostname, port, and path that the client uses to communicate with the service. For a list of supported endpoints for the Certificate Management Service OpenAPI, see Endpoints.

User identity

User identity

Support

Alibaba Cloud account

Support

Resource Access Management (RAM) user (Recommended)

Support

RAM role (Recommended)

Support

You can use a RAM user or RAM role to call API operations. You must grant the required permissions to the RAM user or RAM role.

API style

This API uses the RPC style. For more information about API styles, see API styles.

Supported invocation methods

Invocation method

Support

Notes

Alibaba Cloud SDK

Support

For information about the supported languages and installation methods for the Certificate Management Service SDK, see Certificate Management Service SDK.

Note

For information about how to integrate an Alibaba Cloud SDK, see Alibaba Cloud SDKs.

Alibaba Cloud CLI

No

None.

Resource Orchestration Service

No

None.

Terraform

Support

For more information, see resources.

If none of the preceding methods meet your business needs, you can encapsulate requests to call the OpenAPI. This method is not recommended. For more information, see Custom encapsulation.