Creating a user group

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Updated at May 5, 2025

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Add users to the group

Group users if you want to assign the same roles to them. For example, you may want to group employees with the same job duties or from the same department. You can group users by any attribute.

To form a group of users, create it and add users to it.

Create a group

Cloud Center interface

CLI

Terraform

API

Log in to Yandex Cloud Organization.
In the left-hand panel, select Groups.
In the top-right corner of the page, click Create group.
Enter a name and description for the group.

The name must be unique within the organization and satisfy the relevant requirements:
- It must be from 1 to 63 characters long.
- It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
Click Create group.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the command for creating a Cloud Organization user group:
```
yc organization-manager group create --help
```
To create a user group in Cloud Organization, run this command:
```
yc organization-manager group create \
  --name <group_name> \
  --organization-id <organization_ID> \
  --description <group_description>
```
Where:
- --name: User group name. This is a required parameter. The name must be unique within the organization and satisfy the relevant requirements:
  - It must be from 1 to 63 characters long.
  - It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
  - It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
- --organization-id: Organization ID. This is an optional parameter.
- --description: Text description of the user group. This is an optional parameter.

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

In the configuration file, describe the group parameters:
```
resource "yandex_organizationmanager_group" "my-group" {
  name            = "<group_name>"
  description     = "<group_description>"
  organization_id = "<organization_ID>"
}
```
Where:
- name: Group name. The name must be unique within the organization and satisfy the relevant requirements:
  - It must be from 1 to 63 characters long.
  - It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
  - It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
- description: Group description. This is an optional parameter.
- organization_id: ID of the organization to add the group to.
Create resources:
1. In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
```
terraform validate
```
  If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
3. Run the command:
```
terraform plan
```
  The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
4. Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
5. Confirm the changes: type yes in the terminal and press Enter.
Terraform will create all the required resources. You can check the new resources and their settings using the management console or this CLI command:
```
yc organization-manager group list \
  --organization-id <organization_ID>
```

Use the Group.create REST API method for the Group resource or the GroupService/Create gRPC API call.

Add users to the group

Cloud Center interface

CLI

Terraform

API

Log in to Yandex Cloud Organization.
In the left-hand panel, select Groups and click the row with the name of the group you need.
Go to the Members tab.
Click Add member.
In the window that opens, select the needed users or service accounts. You may want to use the search feature.
Click Save.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

See the description of the command for adding members to the Cloud Organization user group:
```
yc organization-manager group add-members --help
```
To add members to a user group, run this command:
```
yc organization-manager group add-members \
  --name <group_name> \
  --organization-id <organization_ID> \
  --subject-id <member_ID>
```
Where:
- --name: User group name. This is a required parameter.
- --organization-id: Organization ID.
- --subject-id: ID of the member to add to the group.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

In the configuration file, describe the new group members:

resource "yandex_organizationmanager_group_membership" "group-members" {
   group_id = "<group_ID>"
   members  = [
     "<member_1_ID>",
     "<member_2_ID>"
   ]
}

Where:

group_id: ID of the group to add the member to.
members: IDs of the members to add to the group.

Create resources:
1. In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
```
terraform validate
```
  If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
3. Run the command:
```
terraform plan
```
  The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
4. Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
5. Confirm the changes: type yes in the terminal and press Enter.
Terraform will create all the required resources. You can check the new resources and their settings using the management console or this CLI command:
```
yc organization-manager group list-memebers \
  --name <group_name> \
  --organization-id <organization_ID>
```

Use the Group.updateMembers REST API method for the Group resource or the GroupService/UpdateMembers gRPC API call.

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