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How to Create a Vultr Firewall Group

Updated on November 27, 2024

Vultr Firewall is a web-based service that filters network traffic to instances in your Vultr account using groups. A Vultr Firewall group consists of multiple IPv4 and IPv6 network rules that enable you to define specific ports and traffic sources to your instances.

Follow this guide to create a new Vultr Firewall group to manage network traffic filtering rules using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select Firewall from the list of options.

    Select Firewall

  2. Click Add Firewall to set up a new firewall group.

    Add Firewall

  3. Enter your firewall group label in the Description field

    Firewall fields

  4. Click Add Firewall Group to apply the group and manage the network filtering rules.

    Firewall group rules

  1. Send a GET request to the List Firewall Groups endpoint and verify all active firewall groups in your Vultr account.

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

  2. Send a POST request to the Create Firewall Group endpoint to create a new Vultr Firewall group.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/firewalls" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "description" : "<label>"
  }'

    Visit the List Firewall Groups API page to view additional attributes to apply on the firewall group.

  1. List all Vultr Firewall groups in your account.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall group list

  2. Create a new Vultr Firewall group.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli firewall group create --description <label>

    Run vultr-cli firewall group create --help to view additional options to apply on the firewall group.