Security Groups — php-opencloud 1.12.1 documentation

# Security Groups

## Create a security group

This operation takes one parameter, an associative array, with the following keys:

Name | Description | Data type | Required? | Default value | Example value
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

`name`

A human-readable name for the security group. This name might not be unique.

String

Yes

`new-webservers`

`description` | Description of the security group. | String | No | `null` | `security group for webservers`

You can create a security group as shown in the following example:

    /** @var $securityGroup OpenCloud\Networking\Resource\SecurityGroup **/
    $securityGroup = $networkingService->createSecurityGroup(array(
        'name' => 'new-webservers',
        'description' => 'security group for webservers'
    ));

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## List security groups

You can list all the security groups to which you have access as shown in the following example:

    $securityGroups = $networkingService->listSecurityGroups();
    foreach ($securityGroups as $securityGroup) {
        /** @var $securityGroup OpenCloud\Networking\Resource\SecurityGroup **/
    }

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## Get a security group

You can retrieve a specific security group by using that security group’s ID, as shown in the following example:

    /** @var $securityGroup OpenCloud\Networking\Resource\SecurityGroup **/
    $securityGroup = $networkingService->getSecurityGroup('{secGroupId}');

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## Delete a security group

You can delete a security group as shown in the following example:

    $securityGroup->delete();

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