---
title: stack kb fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments post-fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments cli command
description: Create cloud onboarding deployment Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4302/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/kb/fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments/post-fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack kb fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments post-fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments cli command
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</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack kb fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments post-fleet-cloud-onboarding-deployments \
  --mechanisms <mechanisms> \
  --provider <provider> \
  --services <services> \
  [options]
```

Create cloud onboarding deployment
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--mechanisms string[] required">
    Delivery mechanisms active in this deployment.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--mechanisms` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--provider enum required">
    Cloud provider.
    **Values:** aws, azure, gcp
  </definition>
  <definition term="--services string[] required">
    Service IDs to be covered by this deployment.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--services` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--agent-policy-ids string[]">
    Agent policy IDs for agent_based existing-policy deploys. Provided on create so that a mid-deploy tab-close leaves a record that hydrates back into existing mode.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--agent-policy-ids` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--auth-method enum">
    Authentication method. Allowed values depend on the delivery mechanism: - managed_integration: identity_federation | static_keys
    - agent_based: static_keys (direct_access_keys) | temporary_keys | shared_credentials | assume_role
    **Values:** identity_federation, static_keys, temporary_keys, shared_credentials, assume_role
  </definition>
  <definition term="--connector-id string">
    ID of the fleet-cloud-connector to associate with this deployment. Omit for static-keys deployments.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--data-format enum">
    Data format: ecs or otel.
    **Values:** ecs, otel
  </definition>
  <definition term="--global-region string">
    Global AWS region from the Service Settings step.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--service-vars string">
    Per-service config keyed by instance ID.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--no-validate">
    skip input validation and send the request as-is
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>