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What is Machine Identity Management?

Machine Identity Management protects the digital certificates and cryptographic keys that authenticate machines, applications, and services across your infrastructure. This developer hub provides the documentation, APIs, and guides you need to discover, deploy, and manage machine identities at scale—so you can secure your infrastructure with confidence.

Developer Docs

Comprehensive documentation for building and deploying machine identity integrations. Learn about architecture patterns, best practices, and integration development workflows.

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API Reference Guide

Full API documentation with endpoint details, request/response formats, authentication, error codes, and code samples for the Certificate Manager SaaS API.

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Explore

Delve further into the World of Machine Identity! Discover and harness the power of our machine identity APIs and automation guides.

Explore APIs

Browse the full REST API reference across Next-Gen Trust Security and Certificate Manager, with endpoints, schemas, and authentication details.

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Explore Guides

Follow step-by-step developer guides for automating certificate issuance, code signing, and building integrations.

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Test Drive Workload Identity Manager

Spin up Workload Identity Manager in minutes and start issuing just-in-time certificates with the DevOps quick-start guide.

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Build

Welcome to our Ecosystem Hub! Collaborate with us to build innovative connectors and expand Palo Alto Networks' machine identity ecosystem support.

Build connectors

Build a connector to integrate an application with Certificate Manager.

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Build with design patterns

Master design patterns for efficient, reusable integrations. Elevate your solution-building game.

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Open Source

Explore the open-source projects and communities behind machine identity.

Palo Alto MIM GitHub

Browse Palo Alto Networks machine identity projects and source code on GitHub.

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cert-manager

Automate certificate management in Kubernetes with the CNCF cert-manager project.

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Jetstack GitHub

Discover Jetstack's open-source tools for cloud-native machine identity.

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Product Documentation

Looking for product documentation? Find end-user and administrator guides for each machine identity product.

Next-Gen Trust Security

Product documentation for Next-Gen Trust Security on Strata Cloud Manager.

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Certificate Manager SaaS

Product documentation for Certificate Manager SaaS.

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Certificate Manager Self-Hosted

Product documentation for Certificate Manager Self-Hosted.

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