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How to Delete Vultr Firewall Groups and Rules

Updated on 12 September, 2025

Permanently removes the selected resource from your Vultr account.

Deleting a firewall group removes all existing rules and detaches all active instances from the group while deleting firewall rules removes traffic filtering on a specific port. Deleted firewall groups or rules cannot be recovered unless recreated using the Vultr Firewall.

Follow this guide to delete Vultr Firewall groups and rules using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select Firewall from the list of options.
  2. Select your target firewall group to manage it.
  3. Click Delete Firewall Rule within the action section of your target firewall rule to delete it.
  4. Click Delete Group in the top right corner to delete the firewall group and all existing rules.
  5. Click Delete Firewall Group in the confirmation prompt to remove the firewall grou and unlink active instances.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Firewall Groups endpoint and note the target firewall group's ID in your output.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a GET request to the List Firewall Rules endpoint and note the target firewall rule ID in your output.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls/{firewall-group-id}/rules" \
   -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  3. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Firewall Rule endpoint to delete the firewall rule.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls/{firewall-group-id}/rules/{firewall-rule-id}" \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  4. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Firewall Group endpoint to delete the firewall group.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls/{firewall-group-id}" \
   -X DELETE \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all firewall groups in your Vultr account and note the target group ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall group list

  2. List all available firewall rules in the firewall group and note the target rule number.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall rule list <firewall-group-id>

  3. Delete the firewall rule.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall rule delete <firewall-group-id> <firewall-rule-number>

  4. Delete the firewall group.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall group delete <firewall-group-id>

  1. Open your Terraform configuration where the firewall group and rules are defined.

  2. Remove the vultr_firewall_rule blocks you want to delete, or destroy by target; remove the vultr_firewall_group block to delete the group.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_firewall_group" "web" {
    description = "web-fw"
}

resource "vultr_firewall_rule" "allow_http" {
    firewall_group_id = vultr_firewall_group.web.id
    protocol          = "tcp"
    port              = "80"
    ip_type           = "v4"
    subnet            = "0.0.0.0"
    subnet_size       = 0
    notes             = "Allow HTTP"
}

# To delete a specific rule, remove its block or run:
# terraform destroy -target vultr_firewall_rule.allow_http

# To delete the group (and its rules), remove the group block or run:
# terraform destroy -target vultr_firewall_group.web

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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