Create and Use an API Token

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An API token lets a script, a CI job, or a Meshery client act as your user account against Layer5 Cloud. This guide creates one, uses it, rotates it, and revokes it. For what a token can reach and why it never expires, read the Tokens concept.

Before you start 🔗

You need the Create Token permission to create a token in the interface. Organization Admin and Provider Admin hold it by default. A user without it sees the create control disabled.
You need View Tokens to open the Tokens tab. Every default user role holds it.
Decide which consumer gets this token. Create one token per consumer so you can revoke one without breaking the others.

Create a token 🔗

Open the Tokens tab under Security and start a new token. Enter a name and a purpose. Both are labels that appear in the token list: name the consumer (“ci-snapshots”), and state what it does in the purpose.

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Create and Use an API Token

Before you start 🔗

Create a token 🔗