API and Terraform

This section covers a few common use cases with the API and Terraform to manage Cloudflare Access. For specific API documentation, please see api.cloudflare.com Open external link .

• Access API examples
• Scoped API tokens
• Terraform

​​ Set dashboard to read-only

Super Administrators can lock all settings as read-only in Zero Trust. Read-only mode ensures that all updates for the account are made through the API or Terraform.

To enable read-only mode:

1. In Zero Trust Open external link , go to Settings > General.
2. Enable API/Terraform read-only mode.

All users, regardless of user permissions, will be prevented from making configuration changes through the UI.