How to change an internal IP address

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Updated at December 17, 2025

Case description

You need to change the internal IP address of the VM instance.

You can change the internal IP address of a VM using the CLI, Terraform, and API.

CLI

Terraform

API

Command example:

yc compute instance update-network-interface <VM ID> --network-interface-index=0 --ipv4-address=<new IP address from subnet range>

The --network-interface-index flag sets the index of the network interface to update, with numbering starting from zero.

Run this command: yc compute instance update-network-interface <VM_ID> --network-interface-index=0 --ipv4-address=<new_IP_address>.

Alert

You can only change the IP address on a stopped machine.