Provisions a CMEK key for use in a location of a customer's project. This method will also conduct location validation on the provided cmekConfig to make sure the key is valid and can be used in the selected location.
Required. The name of the CmekConfig of the form projects/{project}/locations/{location}/cmekConfig or projects/{project}/locations/{location}/cmekConfigs/{cmekConfig}.
Query parameters
Parameters
setDefault
boolean
Set the following CmekConfig as the default to be used for child resources if one is not specified.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of CmekConfig.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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