Before You Start

Overview

Welcome to use Cloud Certificate Manager (CCM). Cloud Certificate Manager (CCM) issues cloud certificates and manages the entire lifecycle of the certificates. It can be used in many scenarios, such as cloud platform, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and Internet of Things (IoT). CCM includes the SSL Certificate Manager (SCM) and Private Certificate Authority (PCA) services.

API Calling

CCM supports Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, allowing you to call APIs using HTTPS. For details about API calling, see Calling APIs.

Endpoints

An endpoint is the request address for calling an API. CCM is a global service deployed for all physical regions. Table 1 lists all CCM endpoints. You can obtain CCM endpoints at Regions and Endpoints.

**Table 1** CCM endpoints
Region	Endpoint Region	Endpoint	Protocol Type	Included Microservices
All	ALL	scm.my-kualalumpur-1.myhuaweicloud.com	HTTPS	SCM
All	ALL	ccm.my-kualalumpur-1.myhuaweicloud.com	HTTPS	PCA

Concepts

Account
An account is created upon successful registration. The account has full access permissions for all of its cloud services and resources. It can be used to reset user passwords and grant user permissions. The account is a payment entity and should not be used to perform routine management. For security purposes, create IAM users and grant them permissions for routine management.
User
An IAM user is created by an account to use cloud services. Each IAM user has its own identity credentials (password and access keys).

An IAM user can view the account ID and user ID on the page of the console. The account name, username, and password wll be required for API authentication.
Region
Regions are divided based on geographical location and network latency. Public services, such as Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Elastic Volume Service (EVS), Object Storage Service (OBS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic IP (EIP), and Image Management Service (IMS), are shared within the same region. Regions are classified as universal regions and dedicated regions. A universal region provides universal cloud services for common tenants. A dedicated region provides services of the same type only or for specific tenants.
Availability Zone (AZ)
An AZ comprises one or multiple physical data centers equipped with independent ventilation, fire, water, and electricity facilities. Compute, network, storage, and other resources in an AZ are logically divided into multiple clusters. AZs within a region are interconnected using high-speed optical fibers to support cross-AZ high-availability systems.
Project
Projects group and isolate resources (including compute, storage, and network resources) across physical regions. A default project is provided for each region, and subprojects can be created under each default project. Users can be granted permissions to access all resources in a specific project. For more refined access control, create subprojects under a project and create resources in the subprojects. Users can then be assigned permissions to access only specific resources in the subprojects.

Figure 1 Project isolation model