Changing the name and description

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at October 17, 2024

After creating a security group, you can change its name and description, and add or remove rules.

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

To change the name or description of a group:

In the management console, go to the folder where you need to change the security group.
In the list of services, select Virtual Private Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Security groups.
Click in the row next to the group to edit.
In the menu that opens, click Edit.
Edit the group name and description and click Save.

To update the security group, run this command:

yc vpc security-group update <group_ID> --new-name test-sg-renamed

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 name and description parameters in the security group description:
```
...
resource "yandex_vpc_security_group" "test-sg" {
  name        = "Test security group"
  description = "Description for security group"
  network_id  = "${yandex_vpc_network.lab-net.id}"
}
...
```
For more information about the yandex_vpc_security_group resource in Terraform, see the provider documentation.

Note

To manage the default security group, use the vpc_default_security_group resource.
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 changes to the security group using the management console or the CLI command below:
```
yc vpc security-group get <security_group_name>
```

To change the security group name or description, use the update REST API method for the SecurityGroup resource or the SecurityGroupService/Update gRPC API call, and provide the following in the request:

ID of the security group you want to update, in the securityGroupIds parameter.

To get the security group ID, use the list REST API method for the SecurityGroup resource or the SecurityGroup/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 security group name, in the name parameter.
New security group description, in the description parameter.
List of settings to update, in the updateMask parameter.

Warning

This API method overrides all parameters of the object being modified that were not explicitly passed in the request to the default values. To avoid this, list the settings you want to change in the updateMask parameter (one line separated by commas).

Changing the name and description

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