kosli_create_policy.md

title	kosli create policy
description	Create or update a Kosli policy.

Synopsis

kosli create policy POLICY-NAME POLICY-FILE-PATH [flags]

Updating policy content creates a new version of the policy.

Flags

Flag	Type	Description
--comment	string	[optional] comment about the change made in a policy file when updating a policy.
--description	string	[optional] policy description.
-D, --dry-run	bool	[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
-h, --help	bool	help for policy
--type	string	[defaulted] the type of policy. One of: [env] (default "env")

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Type	Description
-a, --api-token	string	The Kosli API token.
-c, --config-file	string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. Config is read from this path or the default only, never implicitly from the current directory. (default "$HOME/.kosli.yml")
--debug	bool	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
-H, --host	string	[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default "https://app.kosli.com")
--http-proxy	string	[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port
-r, --max-api-retries	int	[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
--org	string	The Kosli organization.
-q, --quiet	bool	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both --quiet and --debug are set, --debug wins.

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

```shell kosli create policy yourPolicyName yourPolicyFile.yml --description yourPolicyDescription --type env

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```shell
kosli create policy yourPolicyName yourPolicyFile.yml 
	--description yourPolicyDescription 
	--type env 
	--comment yourChangeComment