How to Attach VPC Networks on a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network enables a secure and isolated private networking interface on your instance for communication with other instances in the same network. You can attach a single VPC network to enable communication between a Bare Metal Instance and other nodes attached to the same network.

Note

You must restart the instance for cloud-init to reconfigure the network interfaces.

Follow this guide to attach a VPC network on a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and click Compute.
Click your target instance to open its management page.
Navigate to the Settings tab.
Click IPv4 on the left navigation menu.
Click Enable VPC to attach a new VPC network to your instance.
Click Enable VPC in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.
Click Attach VPC in the confirmation prompt to apply changes to your instance.

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