Python Client for Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API (Alpha)
Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API: Manages encryption for your cloud services the same way you do on-premises. You can generate, use, rotate, and destroy AES256 encryption keys.
In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:
- Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
- Enable billing for your project.
- Enable the Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API.
- Setup Authentication.
Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.
With virtualenv, it's possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
source <your-env>/bin/activate
<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-kmspip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-kms- Read the Client Library Documentation for Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API API to see other available methods on the client.
- Read the Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.
- View this repository’s main README to see the full list of Cloud APIs that we cover.