Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target instance to open its management page.
3. Navigate to the Settings tab.
4. Find and click Change StartUp Script on the left navigation menu.
5. Enter a new script name in the name field and click the Type drop down to set the script type.
6. Enter your startup script data in the Script field and click Add Script to enable the script on your instance.
7. Navigate to Change StartUp Script in your instance settings to verify that the new script is added.

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Bare Metal instance.
2. Create or reference a vultr_startup_script resource and attach it to the instance.
   terraform

   # Create a new startup script
   resource "vultr_startup_script" "init" {
       name   = "init-nginx"
       type   = "boot"  # boot | pxeboot
       script = <<-EOT
       #!/bin/bash
       apt-get update -y
       apt-get install -y nginx
       systemctl enable --now nginx
       EOT
   }
   
   # Attach the startup script to the Bare Metal instance
   resource "vultr_bare_metal_server" "bm1" {
       # ...existing fields (region, plan, os_id, label, etc.)
   
       script_id = vultr_startup_script.init.id
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.