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  2. Creating a trunk

Creating a new trunk

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Danila N.
Updated at June 24, 2026
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Creating a direct trunkCreating a direct trunk

Note

You need the cic.editor role to run this operation.

Management console
CLI
  1. In the management console, click or in the top panel and select the folder.

  2. Navigate to Cloud Interconnect.

  3. In the left-hand panel, select  Trunk connections and click Create trunk connection. In the window that opens:

    1. In the Connection capacity field, specify the traffic packet size for the new trunk.

    2. In the Point of presence field, select the required point of presence.

    3. In the Connection type field, select Direct.

    4. In the Transceiver type field, select the tranciever type to use on the Cloud Interconnect side. Your hardware must have a compatible tranciever.

    5. Optionally, under General information, specify:

      • 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.

        If you do not specify a name, the trunk name will be identical to the trunk ID.

      • Ad hoc trunk Description.

      • Trunk Labels.

    6. To protect the new trunk from accidental deletion, enable Deletion protection.

    7. Click Create.

  1. See the description of the CLI command for creating a trunk:

    yc cic trunk-connection create --help
    
  2. Create a direct trunk in the specified folder:

    Where:

    • id: Trunk ID.
    • name: Trunk name.
    • description: Trunk description.
    • cloud_id: ID of the cloud in whose folder the trunk was created.
    • folder_id: ID of the cloud folder the trunk was created in.
    • region_id: Region of the cloud containing the trunk.
    • Trunk type:
      • single_port_direct_joint: Direct trunk:
        • transceiver_type: Transceiver type in use.
        • port_name: Port number(s) allocated for the trunk on the network device.
        • access_device_name: Name of the network device with ports allocated for the trunk.
      • lag_direct_joint: Aggregated (LAG) direct trunk:
        • transceiver_type: Transceiver type in use.
        • lag_id: Aggregated connection ID.
        • port_names: List of physical ports in the LAG.
      • partner_joint_info: Partner trunk:
        • partner_id: Partner ID.
        • service_key: Partner trunk service key.
    • point_of_presence_id: Point of presence ID. When creating a trunk, you must select the required value from the Label column of the table.
    • capacity: Trunk capacity. When creating a trunk, you must select the required value from the Label column of the table.
    • status: Resource state. Target state: ACTIVE.
    • created_at: Date and time of resource creation.
    • deletion-protection: Resource protection against accidental deletion. You will not be able to delete the resource unless this flag is removed first.
    • async: Running a command in asynchronous mode. We recommend you to perform all resource state change operations in this mode.

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