Creating a VRF
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In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a VRF.
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Navigate to BareMetal.
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In the left-hand panel, select VRF.
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At the top right, click Create VRF.
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In the Name field, specify your VRF name. The naming requirements are as follows:
- Length: between 3 and 63 characters.
- It can only contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
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Optionally, you can add a VRF Description.
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Optionally, you can add labels.
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Click Create VRF.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.
The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.
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View the description of the command to create a virtual network segment (VRF):
yc baremetal vrf create --help -
Create a VRF:
yc baremetal vrf create \ --name <VRF_name> \ --description "<VRF_description>" \ --labels <key>=<value>Where:
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--name: VRF name. The naming requirements are as follows:- Length: between 3 and 63 characters.
- It can only contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
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--description: VRF description. This is an optional setting. -
--labels: VRF labels. This is an optional setting.
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To create a VRF, use the create REST API method for the Vrf resource or the VrfService/Create gRPC API call.
Example
Create a virtual routing and forwarding segment with a name, description, and label:
yc baremetal vrf create \
--name demo-vrf \
--description "My first VRF" \
--labels env=test
Result:
id: ly52l2lzaq5uw********
cloud_id: b1gia87mbaom********
folder_id: b1g0ijbfaqsn********
name: demo-vrf
description: My first VRF
created_at: "2025-07-01T21:37:08.740581Z"
labels:
env: test
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d '{
"folderId": "b1g07hj5r6i4********",
"name": "baremetal-vrf",
"description": "Test baremetal VRF",
"labels": {
"key": "vrf"
}
}' \
"https://baremetal.api.cloud.yandex.net/baremetal/v1alpha/vrfs"
Where:
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<IAM_token>: IAM token used for authentication. -
folderId: Folder ID. -
name: Image name. The naming requirements are as follows:- Length: between 3 and 63 characters.
- It can only contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- It must start with a letter and cannot end with a hyphen.
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description: VRF description. This is an optional parameter. -
labels: VRF labels. This is an optional parameter.
Result:
{
"done": true,
"metadata": {
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/yandex.cloud.baremetal.v1alpha.CreateVrfMetadata",
"vrfId": "ly5uyq2gbxu2********"
},
"response": {
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/yandex.cloud.baremetal.v1alpha.Vrf",
"labels": {
"key": "vrf"
},
"id": "ly5uyq2gbxu2********",
"cloudId": "b1gia87mbaom********",
"folderId": "b1g07hj5r6i4********",
"name": "baremetal-vrf",
"description": "Test baremetal VRF",
"createdAt": "2025-12-07T21:22:16.493703Z"
},
"id": "ly53ac2rdtrk********",
"description": "VRF create",
"createdAt": "2025-12-07T21:22:16.521291Z",
"createdBy": "ajeb9l33h6mu********",
"modifiedAt": "2025-12-07T21:22:16.521291Z"
}
Follow the status of the operation by the done field.