Working with security groups

Security groups can be managed in either the Neutron CLI or the Horizon dashboard. Both offer a pretty complete experience and are broken down in the following sections.

Managing security groups in the CLI

From within the Neutron command-line client, a number of commands can be used to manage security groups, such as:

  • security-group-create
  • security-group-delete
  • security-group-list
  • security-group-rule-create
  • security-group-rule-delete
  • security-group-rule-list
  • security-group-rule-show
  • security-group-show
  • security-group-update

Creating security groups in the CLI

To create a security group within the CLI, use the Neutron security-group-create command as follows:

Syntax: security-group-create [--tenant-id TENANT_ID]
[--description DESCRIPTION] ...

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