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# create_credential

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.create_credential"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">create\_credential</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">credential\_name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">type</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">identity</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">secret</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L21909"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Create a new <a className="reference external" href="/content/concepts/credentials/">credential</a>.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">credential\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the credential to be created. Must contain only letters, digits, and underscores, and cannot begin with a digit. Must not match an existing credential name.</p>
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            <div className="dt">type (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Type of the credential to be created. Allowed values are:</p>

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                  <p>aws\_access\_key</p>
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                  <p>aws\_iam\_role</p>
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                  <p>azure\_ad</p>
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                  <p>azure\_oauth</p>
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                  <p>azure\_sas</p>
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                  <p>azure\_storage\_key</p>
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                  <p>confluent</p>
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                  <p>docker</p>
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                  <p>gcs\_service\_account\_id</p>
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                  <p>gcs\_service\_account\_keys</p>
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                  <p>hdfs</p>
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                  <p>jdbc</p>
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                  <p>kafka</p>
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                  <p>nvidia\_api\_key</p>
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                  <p>openai\_api\_key</p>
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                  <p>rest</p>
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            <div className="dt">identity (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>User of the credential to be created.</p>
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              <p>Password of the credential to be created.</p>
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            <div className="dt">options (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">credential\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Value of input parameter <span className="em">credential\_name</span>.</p>
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            <div className="dt">info (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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