How to Manage Startup Scripts for Vultr Instances

Navigate to Orchestration and select Scripts.

Click Add Startup Script.

Enter a name, select the type, define some commands, and click Add Script.

Send a POST request to the Create Startup Script endpoint and encode the Startup script to Base64 format.

$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/startup-scripts" \
    -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
        "name" : "Sample-Script",
        "type" : "pxe",
        "script" : "QmFzZTY0IEV4YW1wbGUgRGF0YQ=="
    }'

Visit the Create Startup Script endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

Send a GET request to the List Startup Scripts endpoint to view all scripts.

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

Create a new scripts.yaml file.

$ nano scripts.yaml

Enter your Startup scripts into the file.

mkdir ~/my-apps
chmod 700 ~/my-apps

Save the file.

Convert the file contents to Base64 and note the output. For instance, bWtkaXIgfi9teS1hcHBzCmNobW9kIDcwMCB+L215LWFwcHM=.

$ echo -n "$(<scripts.yaml)" | base64

Create a new Startup script.

$ vultr-cli script create \
--name Sample-Script \
--type boot \
--script bWtkaXIgfi9teS1hcHBzCmNobW9kIDcwMCB+L215LWFwcHM=

List all scripts.

$ vultr-cli script list

Get the details of a specific script by specifying a script ID.

$ vultr-cli script get script_id

Run vultr-cli script create --help to view all options.