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Create a Custom Network Security Group

Note: Only contract administrators, owners, and users with both permissions to the VDC concerned and createNetworkSecurityGroups privilege can create NSGs via API.

Prerequisite: You need an IONOS Cloud account with API credentials configured with the appropriate permissions.

To create a Custom NSG, you need to use the following Cloud API POST request providing the datacenterIdand the required properties:

POST /datacenters/{datacenterId}/securitygroups

Request

curl --location 'https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/datacenters/5a88aa8b-8aa1-51f6-XXd1-XXXXXe9f31/securitygroups' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic YYXabCDeFmLMO0c2hyYUBpb25vcy5jb206I1Bha2lzdGFuXzE=' \
--data '{
    "properties": {
        "name": "NSG-1",
        "description": "Description for NSG-1"
    }
}'

Response

202 Accepted

{
    "id": "bxxxx-axXX-0008-8888-99k0444e5555",
    "type": "security-group",
    "href": "https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/datacenters/5a88aa8b-8aa1-51f6-XXd1-XXXXXe9f31/securitygroups/bxxxx-axXX-0008-8888-99k0444e5555",
    "metadata": {
        "etag": "64c593ebd78b0d9da52baba4079e119d",
        "createdDate": "2024-05-17T15:11:09Z",
        "createdBy": "test.test@ionos.com",
        "createdByUserId": "XYaf0375-1c1d-4387-9ef1-6ee95d30e54a",
        "lastModifiedDate": "2024-05-17T15:11:09Z",
        "lastModifiedBy": "test.test@ionos.com",
        "lastModifiedByUserId": "XYaf0375-1c1d-4387-9ef1-6ee95d30e54a",
        "state": "BUSY"
    },
    "properties": {
        "name": "NSG-1",
        "description": "Description for NSG-1"
    }
}

Note: For CloudAPI, some resources are created asynchronously. You can check for the progress via the Status URL that is returned in the response header of the POST or PUT call.

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