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

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

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

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

Navigate to Products and click Compute.
Click your target Vultr Optimized 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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