Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
3. Click Server Reinstall on the top-right navigation menu.
4. Check the confirmation prompt and click Reinstall Server to apply the changes.

Vultr API

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

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

2. Send a POST request to the Reinstall Instance endpoint to reinstall the target instance.
   console

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

Vultr CLI

1. List all available instances and note your target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Reinstall the target instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance reinstall <instance_id>

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Optimized Cloud Compute instance.
2. Trigger a reinstall by replacing the instance during apply.
   console

   $ terraform apply -replace=vultr_instance.occ

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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