How to Enable a Vultr Firewall Group on a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Apply a Vultr Firewall group to a Cloud Compute instance so its rules filter incoming traffic by port and service.

Vultr Firewall groups allow you to create rules that filter incoming network traffic to an instance. Firewall rules define which network ports and services accept connections to the instance.

Follow this guide to enable a Vultr Firewall group on a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
Navigate to the Settings tab.
Click Firewall on the left navigation menu.
Click the Firewall drop-down to select a new firewall group.
Click Update Firewall Group to enable the firewall group on the instance.

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