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Create an organization API key and assign it to your project.
MongoDB returns the private API key only once. After you run this command, immediately copy, save, and secure both the public and private API keys.
To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key that has the Project User Admin role.
Syntax
atlas projects apiKeys create [options]
Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--desc | string | true | Description of the API key. |
-h, --help | false | help for create | |
-o, --output | string | false | Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. |
--projectId | string | false | Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable. |
--role | strings | true | Role or roles that you want to assign to the API key. To assign more than one role, you can specify each role with a separate role flag or specify all of the roles as a comma-separated list using one role flag. Valid values are ORG_OWNER, ORG_MEMBER, ORG_GROUP_CREATOR, ORG_BILLING_ADMIN, and ORG_READ_ONLY. |
Inherited Options
Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-P, --profile | string | false | Human-readable label that identifies the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file. |
Output
If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.
API Key '<ID>' created. Public API Key <PublicKey> Private API Key <PrivateKey>
Examples
# Create an organization API key with the ORG_OWNER role and assign it to the project with ID 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3: atlas projects apiKeys create --desc "My API key" --projectId 5e1234c17a3e5a48f5497de3 --role ORG_OWNER --output json