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Certificate Manager API, gRPC: CertificateService.Update

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Updated at July 1, 2026
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Updates the specified certificate.

gRPC request

rpc Update (UpdateCertificateRequest) returns (operation.Operation)

UpdateCertificateRequest

{
  "certificate_id": "string",
  "update_mask": "google.protobuf.FieldMask",
  "name": "string",
  "labels": "map<string, string>",
  "certificate": "string",
  "chain": "string",
  "private_key": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deletion_protection": "bool"
}

Field

Description

certificate_id

string

Required field. ID of the certificate to update.
To get the ID of a certificate use a CertificateService.List request.

The maximum string length in characters is 50.

update_mask

google.protobuf.FieldMask

Field mask that specifies which attributes of the certificate are going to be updated.

name

string

New name for the certificate.

Value must match the regular expression |[a-z]([-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?.

labels

object (map<string, string>)

New labels for the certificate as key:value pairs.

The maximum string length in characters for each value is 63. The maximum string length in characters for each key is 63. Each key must match the regular expression [a-z][-_0-9a-z]*. Each value must match the regular expression [-_0-9a-z]*. No more than 64 per resource.

certificate

string

New PEM-encoded certificate content for the certificate. Used only for imported certificates.

The maximum string length in characters is 32768.

chain

string

New PEM-encoded certificate chain content for the certificate. Used only for imported certificates.

The maximum string length in characters is 2097152.

private_key

string

New PEM-encoded private key content for the certificate. Used only for imported certificates.

The maximum string length in characters is 524288.

description

string

New description for the certificate.

The maximum string length in characters is 1024.

deletion_protection

bool

Flag that protects deletion of the certificate

operation.Operation

{
  "id": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "created_at": "google.protobuf.Timestamp",
  "created_by": "string",
  "modified_at": "google.protobuf.Timestamp",
  "done": "bool",
  "metadata": "google.protobuf.Any",
  // Includes only one of the fields `error`, `response`
  "error": "google.rpc.Status",
  "response": "google.protobuf.Any"
  // end of the list of possible fields
}

An Operation resource. For more information, see Operation.

Field

Description

id

string

ID of the operation.

description

string

Description of the operation. 0-256 characters long.

created_at

google.protobuf.Timestamp

Creation timestamp.

created_by

string

ID of the user or service account who initiated the operation.

modified_at

google.protobuf.Timestamp

The time when the Operation resource was last modified.

done

bool

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress.
If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.

metadata

google.protobuf.Any

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation.
It typically contains the ID of the target resource that the operation is performed on.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

error

google.rpc.Status

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

response

google.protobuf.Any

The normal response of the operation in case of success.
If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete,
the response is google.protobuf.Empty.
If the original method is the standard Create/Update,
the response should be the target resource of the operation.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the response type, if any.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.
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