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Manage identities within a global virtual cloud For a detailed overview, please visit the identity’s reference page.

identity access-report

Show the access report for the referenced identity Usage
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identity audit

Retrieve audit trail events for the referenced identity Usage
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identity create

Create a new identity Usage
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identity delete

Delete one or more referenced identities Usage
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identity edit

Edit the referenced identity, as YAML, within an editor Usage
The default editor can be set by using the EDITOR environment variable.
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identity eventlog

Show the event log of the referenced identity Usage
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identity get

Retrieve one or more referenced identities Usage
An empty reference will return all references
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  • Get all identities
  • Get one identity
  • Get multiple identities

identity patch

Update the referenced identity’s metadata using an input file Usage
Running this command with the option --file - sets the input to stdin. The input is required to be a valid JSON or YAML string (e.g., {"description": "My new description"} or description: My new description). To complete the update, press Control-D (or Control-Z if you are using Windows).
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identity permissions

Show the grantable permissions for an identity object type Usage
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identity query

Find all the identities based on the given query Usage
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Use the --match option to display all, none, or any of the results based on a given property or tag
  • Search for an identity based on the name property
  • Search for an identity based on the description property
  • Search for an identity based on a tag
  • Search for an identity based on a property and tag

identity tag

Manage the tags belonging to one or more referenced identities Usage
Built-in tags, which begin with cpln/*, can’t be modified.
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  • Add a tag
  • Update same tag (after running the example above)
  • Remove tag (after running the example above)

identity update

Update properties of the referenced identity Usage
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  • The --set option allows the modification of the following identity properties:
    • description
      • Description of the identity
      • Type: string
    • tags
      • Tags (key=value) associated with the identity
      • Type: string
  • For the examples below, the initial identity is configured as:
  • Update an identity’s description
  • Update an identity’s tag