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yc vpc security-group create

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Updated at January 27, 2026

Create a security group.

Command UsageCommand Usage

Syntax:

yc vpc security-group create <SECURITY-GROUP-NAME> [Flags...] [Global Flags...]

FlagsFlags

Flag

Description

--name

string

Name of the security group.

--description

string

Description of the security group.

--labels

key=value[,key=value...]

A list of security group labels as key-value pairs.

--network-id

string

ID of the network to which the security group belongs.

--network-name

string

Name of the network to which the security group belongs.

--rule

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

A list of rules in a security group.

Possible property names:

  • description: Description of rule

  • direction: Rule direction. May be one of ingress or egress

  • port: Port for rule represented by port number or 'any'. Cannot be used with from-port and to-port flags. Can only be specified for rule with tcp or udp protocols.

  • from-port: Start of rule port range. Must be followed by 'to-port'.

  • to-port: End of rule port range. Must be proceeded by 'from-port'.

  • protocol: Rule protocol. May be one of 'any', 'tcp', 'udp', 'icmp', 'ipv6_icmp' or IANA IP protocol number http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml

  • v4-cidrs: List of target IPv4 CIDRs for rule, v4-cidrs=192.168.0.1/32,v4-cidrs=[127.0.0.0/28,10.0.0.0/8]. For EGRESS rule those represent destination IP blocks, for INGRESS rule those represent source IP blocks.

  • v6-cidrs: List of target IPv6 CIDRs for rule, v6-cidrs=beef::/64,v6-cidrs=[::/0,cafe::/32]. For EGRESS rule those represent destination IP blocks, for INGRESS rule those represent source IP block.

  • security-group-id: Target security group's id.

  • security-group-name: Target security group's name.

  • predefined: Predefined target. See docs for choices.

--async

Display information about the operation in progress, without waiting for the operation to complete.

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.

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