How to Manage Tags on a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on September 25, 2024

Tagging enables the assignment of specific labels called tags on an instance for identification in your Vultr account. Tags consist of multiple characters that help identify, organize, and manage instances in your Vultr account.

Follow this guide to manage tags on a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Cloud Compute
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

    Navigate to Products in the Vultr Customer Portal

  2. Click your target Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.

    Open the Instance management panel

  3. Navigate to the Tags tab.

    Access the instance tags tab

  4. Enter a new tag in the Add Tag field and click Add to apply the new tag.

    Add new tag

  5. Find and click Delete within the Existing Tags section to remove a specific tag on your instance.

    Remove an Instance Tag

  1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note the target instance's ID in your output.

    console
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
      -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
    
  2. Send a PATCH request to the Update Instance endpoint to add new tags to the instance.

    console
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/{instance-id}" \
      -X PATCH \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      --data '{
        "tags" : ["tag1", "tag2"]
      }'
    
  1. List all instances in your Vultr account and note the target instance's ID.

    console
    $ vultr-cli instance list
    
  2. Add new tags to the instance.

    console
    $ vultr-cli instance tags <instance_id> --tags <tag1,tag2>