Yandex Cloud
Search
Contact UsTry it for free
  • Customer Stories
  • Documentation
  • Blog
  • All Services
  • System Status
  • Marketplace
    • Featured
    • Infrastructure & Network
    • Data Platform
    • AI for business
    • Security
    • DevOps tools
    • Serverless
    • Monitoring & Resources
  • All Solutions
    • By industry
    • By use case
    • Economics and Pricing
    • Security
    • Technical Support
    • Start testing with double trial credits
    • Cloud credits to scale your IT product
    • Gateway to Russia
    • Cloud for Startups
    • Center for Technologies and Society
    • Yandex Cloud Partner program
    • Price calculator
    • Pricing plans
  • Customer Stories
  • Documentation
  • Blog
© 2026 Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C.
Yandex Identity and Access Management
  • Secure use of Yandex Cloud
  • Access management
  • Pricing policy
  • Role reference
    • Overview
    • create-id-token
    • create-token
      • Overview
      • create
      • delete
      • get
      • list
    • revoke-token
    • whoami
  • Terraform reference
  • Monitoring metrics
  • Audit Trails events
  • Release notes
  1. CLI reference
  2. key
  3. create

yc iam key create

Written by
Yandex Cloud
Updated at January 27, 2026

Create an IAM key for for authenticated account or the specified service account.
Created key will be written to file in JSON format.

Command UsageCommand Usage

Syntax:

yc iam key create [Flags...] [Global Flags...]

FlagsFlags

Flag

Description

-o, --output

string

The path where the resulting IAM key should be written.

--service-account-id

string

service account id.

--service-account-name

string

service account name.

--description

string

Specifies a textual description of the service account.

--algorithm

string

Specifies key algorithm. Otherwise server default will be used. Values: 'rsa-2048', 'rsa-4096'

Global FlagsGlobal Flags

Flag

Description

--profile

string

Set the custom configuration file.

--debug

Debug logging.

--debug-grpc

Debug gRPC logging. Very verbose, used for debugging connection problems.

--no-user-output

Disable printing user intended output to stderr.

--retry

int

Enable gRPC retries. By default, retries are enabled with maximum 5 attempts.
Pass 0 to disable retries. Pass any negative value for infinite retries.
Even infinite retries are capped with 2 minutes timeout.

--cloud-id

string

Set the ID of the cloud to use.

--folder-id

string

Set the ID of the folder to use.

--folder-name

string

Set the name of the folder to use (will be resolved to id).

--endpoint

string

Set the Cloud API endpoint (host:port).

--token

string

Set the OAuth token to use.

--impersonate-service-account-id

string

Set the ID of the service account to impersonate.

--no-browser

Disable opening browser for authentication.

--format

string

Set the output format: text (default), yaml, json, json-rest.

--jq

string

Query to select values from the response using jq syntax

-h, --help

Display help for the command.

  • Creating an authorized key
  • Get an IAM token using the CLI

Was the article helpful?

Previous
Overview
Next
delete
© 2026 Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C.