Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select Firewall from the list of options.
2. Click Add Firewall to set up a new firewall group.
3. Enter your firewall group label in the Description field
4. Click Add Firewall Group to apply the group and manage the network filtering rules.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Firewall Groups endpoint and verify all active firewall groups in your Vultr account.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls" \
     -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a POST request to the Create Firewall Group endpoint to create a new Vultr Firewall group.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

   Visit the List Firewall Groups API page to view additional attributes to apply on the firewall group.

Vultr CLI

1. List all Vultr Firewall groups in your account.
   console

   $ vultr-cli firewall group list
   

2. Create a new Vultr Firewall group.
   console

   $ vultr-cli firewall group create --description <label>
   

   Run vultr-cli firewall group create --help to view additional options to apply on the firewall group.

Terraform

1. Ensure the Vultr Terraform provider is configured in your Terraform project.
2. Create a firewall group (and optionally a rule), then apply.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_firewall_group" "web" {
       description = "web-fw"
   }
   
   resource "vultr_firewall_rule" "allow_http" {
       firewall_group_id = vultr_firewall_group.web.id
       protocol          = "tcp"
       port              = "80"
       ip_type           = "v4"
       subnet            = "0.0.0.0"
       subnet_size       = 0
       notes             = "Allow HTTP"
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 2 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.