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User Data

Updated on 15 September, 2025

Retrieves or sets user-supplied initialization data (cloud-init/scripts) for bare metal server instances.

The vultr-cli bare-metal user-data command retrieves or sets the user-supplied initialization data (cloud-init/scripts) for a specified bare metal server instance.

Usage

console 
$ vultr-cli bare-metal user-data

Available Commands

  • get - Get the user data of a bare metal server
  • set - Set the plain text user-data of a bare metal server
Get
Retrieves the cloud-init user data script for a specified bare metal server instance in your Vultr account.
Set
Updates the cloud-init initialization script for a specified bare metal server instance.