Creating a Customer Gateway

Function

This API is used to create a customer gateway to which a VPN gateway connects.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

URI

POST /v5/{project_id}/customer-gateways

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
project_id	String	Yes	Specifies a project ID. You can obtain the project ID by referring to Obtaining the Project ID.

Request

Request parameters

**Table 2** Request parameters
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
customer_gateway	CreateCgwRequestBodyContent object	Yes	Specifies the customer gateway object.

**Table 3** CreateCgwRequestBodyContent
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
name	String	No	Specifies the name of a customer gateway. If this parameter is not specified, a name in the format of cgw-** is automatically generated, for example, cgw-21a3**. The value is a string of 1 to 64 characters, which can contain digits, letters, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.).
id_type	String	No	Specifies the identifier type of a customer gateway. The value can be ip or fqdn. The default value is ip.
id_value	String	Yes	Specifies the identifier of a customer gateway. The value is a string of 1 to 128 characters. When id_type is set to ip, the value is an IPv4 address in dotted decimal notation, for example, 192.168.45.7. When id_type is set to fqdn, the value is a string of characters that can contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters. Spaces and the following special characters are not supported: & < > [ ] \ ?.
bgp_asn	Long	No	Specifies the BGP AS number of the customer gateway. The value ranges from 1 to 4294967295. Set this parameter only when id_type is set to ip.
tags	Array of VpnResourceTag object	No	Specifies a tag list. A maximum of 20 tags can be specified.

**Table 4** VpnResourceTag
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
key	String	Yes	Specifies a tag key. The value is a string of 1 to 128 characters that can contain digits, letters, Spanish characters, Portuguese characters, spaces, and special characters (_ . : = + - @).
value	String	Yes	Specifies a tag value. The value is a string of 0 to 255 characters that can contain digits, letters, Spanish characters, Portuguese characters, spaces, and special characters (_ . : = + - @).

Example request

POST https://{Endpoint}/v5/{project_id}/vpn/customer-gateways

{
    "customer_gateway": {
        "name": "cgw-2abf",
        "id_type": "ip",
        "id_value": "10.***.***.21",
        "bgp_asn": 65000,
    }
}

Response

Response parameters

Returned status code 201: successful creation

**Table 5** Parameters in the response body
Parameter	Type	Description
customer_gateway	ResponseCustomerGateway object	Specifies the customer gateway object.
request_id	String	Specifies a request ID.

**Table 6** ResponseCustomerGateway
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Specifies a customer gateway ID. The value is a UUID containing 36 characters.
name	String	Specifies a customer gateway name. If no customer gateway name is specified, the system automatically generates one. The value is a string of 1 to 64 characters, which can contain digits, letters, underscores (_), and hyphens (-).
id_type	String	Specifies the identifier type of a customer gateway. The value can be ip or fqdn.
id_value	String	Specifies the identifier of a customer gateway.
bgp_asn	Long	Specifies the BGP AS number of the customer gateway. This parameter is available only when id_type is set to ip.
created_at	String	Specifies the time when the customer gateway is created.
updated_at	String	Specifies the last update time.
tags	Array of VpnResourceTag objects	Specifies a tag list.

**Table 7** VpnResourceTag
Parameter	Type	Description
key	String	Specifies a tag key. The value is a string of 1 to 128 characters that can contain digits, letters, Spanish characters, Portuguese characters, spaces, and special characters (_ . : = + - @).
value	String	Specifies a tag value. The value is a string of 0 to 255 characters that can contain digits, letters, Spanish characters, Portuguese characters, spaces, and special characters (_ . : = + - @).

Example response

{
    "customer_gateway": {
        "id": "03c0aa3d-demo-a8df-va86-9d82473765d4",
        "name": "cgw-2abf",
        "id_type": "ip",
        "id_value": "10.***.***.21",
        "bgp_asn": 65000,
        "created_at": "2021-12-21T16:49:28.108+08:00",
        "updated_at": "2021-12-21T16:49:28.108+08:00"
    },
    "request_id": "7e0383bf-a7fb-461b-a926-baa8a795bf1a"
}