Updating a cloud network

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at November 18, 2024

Examples
- Updating a cloud network using its name

After creating a cloud network, you can change its name, description, and tags.

CLI

Terraform

API

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI command for updating cloud network parameters:
```
yc vpc network update --help
```

Get a list of all networks in the default folder:

yc vpc network list

Result:

+----------------------+----------------+
|          ID          |      NAME      |
+----------------------+----------------+
| enpavfmgapum******** | test-network-1 |
| enplom7a98s1******** | default        |
+----------------------+----------------+

Select the ID or NAME of the network you need.

Change the parameters of the cloud network by specifying its name:

yc vpc network update enpavfmgapum******** --new-name test-network-renamed

Result:

id: enpavfmgapum********
folder_id: b1g6ci08ma55********
created_at: "2018-10-23T14:05:32Z"
name: test-network-renamed
description: My first network
labels:
  new_label: test_label

You can provide the ID and name not only as positional arguments but also using the --id and --name flags:

yc vpc network update \
  --id enpavfmgapum******** \
  --new-name test-network-renamed \
  --labels new_label=test_label

yc vpc network update \
  --name test-network-1 \
  --new-name test-network-renamed \
  --labels new_label=test_label

If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

Terraform allows you to quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. Configuration files store the infrastructure description in the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). Terraform and its providers are distributed under the Business Source License.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or the mirror.

If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Open the Terraform configuration file and edit the fragment with the cloud network description:
```
...
resource "yandex_vpc_network" "default" {
  name        = "network-1"
  description = "My first network"
  labels = {
    tf-label    = "tf-label-value"
    empty-label = ""
  }
}
...
```
For more information about the parameters of the yandex_vpc_network resource in Terraform, see the provider documentation.
Check the configuration using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will point them out.
Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
Confirm the changes: type yes into the terminal and press Enter.

You can verify the change to the cloud network using the management console or the following CLI command:
```
yc vpc network get <network_name>
```

To update a cloud network, use the update REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/Update gRPC API call, and provide the following in the request:

ID of the cloud network you want to update, in the networkId parameter.

To get the cloud network ID, use the list REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/List gRPC API call and provide the folder ID in the folderId request parameter.

To learn how to find out the folder ID, see Getting the folder ID.
New network settings if needed:
- Name, in the name parameter.
- Description, in the description parameter.
- Network labels, in the labels parameter.
List of settings to update, in the updateMask parameter.

Warning

The API method will assign default values to all the parameters of the object you are modifying unless you explicitly provide them in your request. To avoid this, list the settings you want to change in the updateMask parameter as a single comma-separated string.

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