---
title: "Create container"
source_url: https://dev.digicert.com/certcentral-apis/services-api/containers/create-container.html
api_method: POST
api_endpoint: "/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children"
api_url: "https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children"
---

**POST** `https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children`

Use this endpoint to create a new container.

## Example requests and responses

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST \
  https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-DC-DEVKEY: {{api_key}}' \
  -d '{
  "name": "Sales Department",
  "description": "Includes sales engineers"
}'
```

**Python**

```python
import requests

url = "https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children"

payload = "{\n  \"name\": \"Sales Department\",\n  \"description\": \"Includes sales engineers\",\n  \"template_id\": 6\n}"
headers = {
    'X-DC-DEVKEY': "{{api_key}}",
    'Content-Type': "application/json"
    }

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

**Go**

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"Sales Department\",\n  \"description\": \"Includes sales engineers\",\n  \"template_id\": 6\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-DC-DEVKEY", "{{api_key}}")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

**NodeJS**

```javascript
var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://www.digicert.com/services/v2/container/{{container_id}}/children',
  headers: 
   { 'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     'X-DC-DEVKEY': '{{api_key}}' },
  body: 
   { name: 'Sales Department',
     description: 'Includes sales engineers',
     template_id: 6 },
  json: true };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
```


## 201 Created

```json
{
    "id": 6
}
```

## Request parameters

<table class="params-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Req/Opt</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>name</td>
<td>required</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Name of the container.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>description</td>
<td>optional</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>Description for the container.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>template_id<br><strong>Deprecated</strong><sup>*</sup></td>
<td>optional</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Template ID for the container.<br><sup>*</sup>DigiCert has deprecated the <code>template_id</code> parameter. Now, when you create a container, we ignore this property and automatically select a valid template ID for you.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

## Response parameters

<table class="params-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>id</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>ID of the created container.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>