How to Link a Vultr Firewall Group to an Instance
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How to Link a Vultr Firewall Group to an Instance
A feature that allows you to connect your Vultr account with third-party services for enhanced functionality and integrations.
Linking a Vultr Firewall group to an instance enables the group’s filtering rules to the main network interface. A Vultr Firewall group consists of multiple rules that define the flow of traffic and enable filtering of specific requests when linked to an instance.
Follow this guide to link a Vultr Firewall group to an instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.
Vultr Customer Portal
- Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select Firewall from the list of options.
- Select your target firewall group to manage it.
- Click Linked Instances on the left navigation menu.
- Click the Server drop-down and select your target instance from the list and click Add to link the firewall group to the instance.
Vultr API
- Send a
GETrequest to the List Firewall Groups endpoint and note the target firewall group’s ID in your output.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls" \ -X GET \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
- Send a
GETrequest to the List Instances endpoint and note the target instance ID.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \ -X GET \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
- Send a
PATCHrequest to the Update Instance endpoint with a newfirewall_group_idvalue to link the instance to the firewall group.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/{instance-id}" \ -X PATCH \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "firewall_group_id" : "<target-firewall-group>" }'
Vultr CLI
- List all firewall groups in your Vultr account and note the target firewall group ID..
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$ vultr-cli firewall group list - List all instances in your Vultr account and note the target instance ID.
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$ vultr-cli instance list - Link the firewall group to the instance.
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$ vultr-cli instance update-firewall-group --instance-id <target-instance> --firewall-group-id <target-firewal
How to Link a Vultr Firewall Group to an Instance A feature that allows you to connect your Vultr account with third-party services for enhanced functionality and integrations. Linking a Vultr Firewall group to an instance enables the group’s filtering rules to the main network interface. A Vultr Firewall group…
How to Link a Vultr Firewall Group to an Instance A feature that allows you to connect your Vultr account with third-party services for enhanced functionality and integrations. Linking a Vultr Firewall group to an instance enables the group’s filtering rules to the main network interface. A Vultr Firewall group…