The Public Certificate Authority API may be used to create and manage ACME external account binding keys associated with Google Trust Services' publicly trusted certificate authority.
While this library isGA, please note that the Google Cloud C++ client libraries donotfollowSemantic Versioning.
Quickstart
The following shows the code that you'll run in thegoogle/cloud/publicca/quickstart/directory, which should give you a taste of the Public Certificate Authority API C++ client library API.
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All RPCs are exposed as member functions of this class. Other classes provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock [`publicca_v1::PublicCertificateAuthorityServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/publicca/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1publicca__v1_1_1PublicCertificateAuthorityServiceClient) when testing your application.\n\n### More Information\n\n- [Error Handling](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/common-error-handling.html) - describes how the library reports errors.\n- [How to Override the Default Endpoint](/cpp/docs/reference/publicca/2.34.0/publicca-override-endpoint) - describes how to override the default endpoint.\n- [How to Override the Authentication Credentials](/cpp/docs/reference/publicca/2.34.0/publicca-override-authentication) - describes how to change the authentication credentials used by the library.\n- [Override Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies](/cpp/docs/reference/publicca/2.34.0/publicca-override-retry) - describes how to change the default retry policies.\n- [Environment Variables](/cpp/docs/reference/publicca/2.34.0/publicca-env) - describes environment variables that can configure the behavior of the library."]]