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  2. Managing user groups
  3. Editing a group
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Updated at May 5, 2025

Editing a groupEditing a group

Cloud Center interface
CLI
Terraform
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  1. Log in to Yandex Cloud Organization using an administrator or organization owner account.

  2. In the left-hand panel, select Groups.

  3. In the row with the group you need, click and select Edit.

  4. Enter a new name or 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.
  5. Click Save.

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.

  1. View the description of the command to edit a Cloud Organization user group:

    yc organization-manager group update --help
    
  2. To edit a user group, run this command:

    yc organization-manager group update \
      --name <group_name> \
      --new-name <new_name_for_group> \
      --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.
    • --new-name: New name for the user group.

    • --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.

  1. In the configuration file, edit the group parameters:

    resource "yandex_organizationmanager_group" "my-group" {
       name            = "<group_name>"
       description     = "<group_description>"
       organization_id = "<organization_ID>"
    }
    

    Where:

    • name: New 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: New group description.

    • organization_id: ID of the organization the group belongs to.

  2. 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 get \
      --name <group_name> \
      --organization-id <organization_ID>
    

Use the Group.update REST API method for the Group resource or the GroupService/Update gRPC API call.

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