Team Key Pool Management Best Practices
Teams sharing API keys are prone to problems such as confusion over permissions and wasted quotas. With One Balance, a scientific sharing mechanism can be established:
- Centralized Storage: all keys are stored in the Cloudflare D1 database to avoid being scattered locally among members
- Usage Tracking: The system automatically records the number of requests, the failure rate and the remaining quota for each key
- Hierarchical Access Control: Separation of privileges via different AUTH_KEY (e.g. development/testing environments using different key sets)
- Automatic recovery mechanism: Quickly disable when a key compromise or unusual usage pattern is detected
Implementation process: 1) Create key usage specification document 2) Deploy shared instance using pnpm run deploycf 3) Assign individual AUTH_KEY to each sub-team 4) Set up regular audit schedule (weekly checking of blocked_key table in D1 database is recommended).
This answer comes from the articleOne Balance: a load balancing tool for intelligently managing AI API keys via Cloudflare AI GatewayThe