How should a new key be created?
Give the key a name that identifies its owner and purpose, such as production-web or reporting-worker. Copy the secret into your secret store when it is shown.
How is a key maintained?
Monitor usage and last activity, keep allowed origins narrow, and review active keys on a regular schedule.
When should a key be revoked?
Revoke keys that are exposed, unused, replaced, or tied to retired services. Test the replacement before removing the old key.
How should credential governance be implemented?
Define creation, storage, deployment, review, rotation, and retirement before issuing a production key. Names should reveal the service and environment without containing the secret or personal data. Keep this responsibility close to the IPRout client so the behavior documented in API Key Governance Lifecycle remains consistent across web requests, workers, and scheduled jobs.
How should credential governance be verified?
Confirm a new credential from its intended runtime, verify expected origin and cap settings, and prove the application no longer uses its predecessor before revocation. Automate the stable cases and reserve live checks for controlled environments so verification is repeatable without consuming unnecessary production allowance.
How should credential governance be operated?
Maintain an owner, purpose, creation date, deployed locations, expected volume, and review date outside the key. Investigate dormant keys before removal and unexplained activity before renewal. Write down the owner and expected behavior so an alert or product change can be handled without reconstructing the original integration decisions.
Where does credential governance stop?
Creating multiple credentials is not governance by itself. Keys still need limited distribution, usage monitoring, documented ownership, and prompt revocation when a service or operator no longer needs access. Treat that limit as part of the feature contract and direct callers to the related guide when they need a different guarantee or control.
What belongs in the release review for credential governance?
Review the deployed implementation of API Key Governance Lifecycle, not only a local sample. Confirm the intended endpoint, credential source, timeout, response model, and fallback from the environment that will carry real traffic. Use the verification cases above as release evidence, inspect generated browser assets and logs for secret exposure, and make sure dashboards identify the workload without storing raw credentials or unnecessary IP data. Record the configuration owner and rollback action before enabling the feature broadly.
When should credential governance be revisited?
Revisit credential governance when traffic volume, plan capacity, application ownership, deployment regions, browser origins, data retention, or the product consequence of a lookup changes. Compare the current implementation with the documented operating boundary rather than assuming the original decision still fits. Update tests and internal runbooks together, then verify the public API contract and related IPRout guides before rolling the change across every service that shares the client or account.
External references
Continue with the standards and official documentation most relevant to this guide.