Generates a short-lived X509 certificate containing the provided public key and signed by a private key specific to the target instance. Users may use the certificate to authenticate as themselves when connecting to the database.
HTTP request
POST https://sqladmin.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/createEphemeral
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