How to Provision Vultr Cloud Compute Instances

Navigate to Products and select Compute on the list of product options.

Click Deploy to access the Deploy New Instance page.

Select Cloud Compute – Shared CPU.

Choose your desired Vultr location to deploy the instance.

Select a cloud image to install on your instance based on the following options:

• Operating System: Install a fresh operating system image on the instance.

  

• Marketplace Apps: Install a prebuilt software stack or application and the recommended operating system image on the instance.

  

• Upload ISO: Install a specific ISO available in your Vultr account or upload a new ISO image from your workstation to install on the instance.

  

• ISO Library: Install a specific ISO image from the Vultr ISOs library.

  

• Backup: Recover a specific backup available in your Vultr account to the instance.

  

• Snapshot: Install a specific snapshot available in your Vultr account to the instance.

  

Select the instance specifications based on the following CPU and memory options:

• AMD High Performance: Powered by the latest generation AMD EPYC CPUs and NVMe SSDs.
• Intel High Performance: Powered by new generations of Intel Xeon CPUs and NVMe SSDs.
• High Frequency: Powered by 3GHz+ Intel Xeon CPUs and NVMe SSDs.
• Regular Cloud Compute: Powered by previous-generation Intel CPUs and regular SSDs.

Select optional Additional Features to enable on your instance.

• Auto Backups: Enables automatic backups to enable data recovery incase the instance fails.
• IPV6: Assigns a public IPV6 address to the instance.
• No Public IPv4 Address: Disables public IPv4 addressing on the instance's main network interface.
• DDoS Protection: Enables an extra security layer to prevent potential Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on your instance.
• Virtual Private Cloud: Enables a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network interface on the instance.
• Virtual Private Cloud 2.0: Enables a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 2.0 network interface on the instance.
• Limited User Login: Enables a non-root user linuxuser with sudo privileges as the default user instead of root.
• Cloud-Init User-Data: Enables the Cloud-Init data to run at the instance's initialization stage.

Select optional Server Settings to apply on the instance.

• SSH Keys: Installs a specific SSH key from your Vultr account to the instance.
• Firewall Group: Activates a Vultr Firewall group to filter incoming network traffic on the instance.

Enter a new hostname in the Server Hostname field and a descriptive label in the Server Label field to apply on the instance.

View the cost summary and click Deploy Now to create the instance on your Vultr account.

Send a POST request to the Create Instance endpoint to create a new instance with a specific plan, operating system, and hostname in a specific Vultr location.

$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "region" : "<vultr-location>",
    "plan" : "<instance-plan>",
    "os_id" : <os-id>,
    "label" : "<instance-label>",
    "hostname": "<hostname>",
  }'

Visit the Create Instance API page to apply on the Cloud Compute instance.

Create a new Cloud Compute instance with a specific plan, operating system, and hostname in a specific Vultr location.

$ vultr-cli instance create --region <vultr-location> --plan <instance-plan> --os <os-id>  --label <instance-label> --host <hostname>

Run vultr-cli instance create --help to view additional options to apply on the Cloud Compute instance.