be used to create a stub that can make authorized requests. Users can configure client certificate or rely on device certificates to establish a mutual TLS channel, if the `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` variable is explicitly set to `true`. Example:: import google.auth import google.auth.transport.grpc import google.auth.transport.requests from google.cloud.speech.v1 import cloud_speech_pb2 # Get credentials. credentials, _ = google.auth.default() # Get an HTTP request function to refresh credentials. request = google.auth.transport.requests.Request() # Create a channel. channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, regular_endpoint, request, ssl_credentials=grpc.ssl_channel_credentials()) # Use the channel to create a stub. cloud_speech.create_Speech_stub(channel) Usage: There are actually a couple of options to create a channel, depending on if you want to create a regular or mutual TLS channel. First let's list the endpoints (regular vs mutual TLS) to choose from:: regular_endpoint = 'speech.googleapis.com:443' mtls_endpoint = 'speech.mtls.googleapis.com:443' Option 1: create a regular (non-mutual) TLS channel by explicitly setting the ssl_credentials:: regular_ssl_credentials = grpc.ssl_channel_credentials() channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, regular_endpoint, request, ssl_credentials=regular_ssl_credentials) Option 2: create a mutual TLS channel by calling a callback which returns the client side certificate and the key (Note that `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` environment variable must be explicitly set to `true`):: def my_client_cert_callback(): code_to_load_client_cert_and_key() if loaded: return (pem_cert_bytes, pem_key_bytes) raise MyClientCertFailureException() try: channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, mtls_endpoint, request, client_cert_callback=my_client_cert_callback) except MyClientCertFailureException: # handle the exception Option 3: use application default SSL credentials. It searches and uses the command in a context aware metadata file, which is available on devices with endpoint verification support (Note that `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` environment variable must be explicitly set to `true`). See https://cloud.google.com/endpoint-verification/docs/overview:: try: default_ssl_credentials = SslCredentials() except: # Exception can be raised if the context aware metadata is malformed. # See :class:`SslCredentials` for the possible exceptions. # Choose the endpoint based on the SSL credentials type. if default_ssl_credentials.is_mtls: endpoint_to_use = mtls_endpoint else: endpoint_to_use = regular_endpoint channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, endpoint_to_use, request, ssl_credentials=default_ssl_credentials) Option 4: not setting ssl_credentials and client_cert_callback. For devices without endpoint verification support or `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` environment variable is not `true`, a regular TLS channel is created; otherwise, a mutual TLS channel is created, however, the call should be wrapped in a try/except block in case of malformed context aware metadata. The following code uses regular_endpoint, it works the same no matter the created channle is regular or mutual TLS. Regular endpoint ignores client certificate and key:: channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, regular_endpoint, request) The following code uses mtls_endpoint, if the created channle is regular, and API mtls_endpoint is confgured to require client SSL credentials, API calls using this channel will be rejected:: channel = google.auth.transport.grpc.secure_authorized_channel( credentials, mtls_endpoint, request) Args: credentials (google.auth.credentials.Credentials): The credentials to add to requests. request (google.auth.transport.Request): A HTTP transport request object used to refresh credentials as needed. Even though gRPC is a separate transport, there's no way to refresh the credentials without using a standard http transport. target (str): The host and port of the service. ssl_credentials (grpc.ChannelCredentials): Optional SSL channel credentials. This can be used to specify different certificates. This argument is mutually exclusive with client_cert_callback; providing both will raise an exception. If ssl_credentials and client_cert_callback are None, application default SSL credentials are used if `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` environment variable is explicitly set to `true`, otherwise one way TLS SSL credentials are used. client_cert_callback (Callable[[], (bytes, bytes)]): Optional callback function to obtain client certicate and key for mutual TLS connection. This argument is mutually exclusive with ssl_credentials; providing both will raise an exception. This argument does nothing unless `GOOGLE_API_USE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE` environment variable is explicitly set to `true`. kwargs: Additional arguments to pass to :func:`grpc.secure_channel`. Returns: grpc.Channel: The created gRPC channel. Raises: google.auth.exceptions.MutualTLSChannelError: If mutual TLS channel creation failed for any reason. zUReceived both ssl_credentials and client_cert_callback; these are mutually exclusive.Ú