Vultr CLI

Vultr CLI is the official command line wrapper for the Vultr API. It covers compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, DNS, and account-level operations from one shell surface.

• Provision, inspect, reboot, tag, and delete instances, bare metal servers, snapshots, ISOs, and startup scripts.
• Manage platform services such as DNS records, firewalls, load balancers, VPCs, reserved IPs, object storage, container registries, and managed databases.
• Discover regions, plans, operating systems, marketplace apps, and Kubernetes versions before creating or updating clusters and node pools.

• Global --output support for JSON and YAML makes the same commands usable for human inspection and machine parsing.
• Most operations are exposed as explicit subcommands and flags rather than interactive flows, so they fit scripts, CI jobs, and inspect/change/verify loops well.
• Automation works best in a pre-authenticated Vultr environment and should opt into -o json instead of parsing the default text tables.

• Most write operations require VULTR_API_KEY or config-based auth, so the unauthenticated surface is limited.
• The CLI only manages Vultr resources; work inside deployed servers or clusters still needs other tools.