Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
3. Navigate to the Tags tab.
4. Enter a new tag in the Add Tag field and click Add to apply the new tag.
5. Find and click Delete within the Existing Tags section to remove a specific tag on your instance.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Bare Metal Instances endpoint and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

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

2. Send a PATCH request to the Update Bare Metal Instance endpoint to add new tags to the instance.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}" \
     -X PATCH \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{
       "tags" : ["tag1", "tag2"]
     }'

Vultr CLI

1. List all Bare Metal instances available in your Vultr account and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli bare-metal list
   

2. Add new tags to the instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli bare-metal tags <instance_id> --tags <tag1,tag2>

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Bare Metal instance.
2. Update the tags value in the instance resource to include the desired tags.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_bare_metal_server" "bm1" {
       # ...existing fields (region, plan, label, etc.)
   
       tags = ["tag1", "tag2"]
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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