Authentication and configuration

Automate your Application Security / ASPM lifecycle using Infrastructure-as-Code. The Cortex Cloud Terraform provider allows platform teams to programmatically manage integrations, business applications, custom rules, and compliance profiles at scale.

Source of truth: For the most up-to-date schema, provider versions, and complete resource documentation, always refer to the official Cortex Cloud Terraform provider registry.

Prerequisites

Before automating your Application Security workflows, you must initialize and authenticate the cortexcloud Terraform provider using your tenant's API credentials.

Provider version requirement

To manage Application Security-specific resources, you must declare the latest provider version (refer to Cortex Cloud Terraform provider registry).

Authentication requirement

To authenticate, you must generate a dedicated API key in the Cortex Cloud console under Settings → Configurations → API Keys. For more information, refer to Manage API keys.

The provider requires the following parameters to authenticate:

• api_url: The API URL of your Cortex Cloud tenant, formatted as https://api-{fqdn}
• api_key: Your Cortex Cloud API key
• api_key_id: Your Cortex Cloud API key ID (must be a number)
• api_key_type: You must set this attribute to standard or advanced depending on the key you generated to prevent authentication errors. Note that it defaults to advanced. It is highly recommend to use an advanced API key level for added security

Configuration methods

You can pass credentials using one of three methods:

• Provider block parameters

  provider "cortexcloud" {
    api_url      = "https://api-{fqdn}"
    api_key      = "your-api-key"
    api_key_id   = 12345
    api_key_type = "advanced"
  }

• Environment variables

  You can set CORTEXCLOUD_API_URL, CORTEXCLOUD_API_KEY, CORTEXCLOUD_API_KEY_ID, and CORTEXCLOUD_API_KEY_TYPE.
• Configuration file

  A JSON file referenced by the config_file attribute.