Digital Ocean Load Balancer Firewall How to Apply

Hi there,

Currently, you can only add firewall rules to a load balancer using the CLI or API.

To add or remove firewall rules from an existing load balancer using the CLI, use the --allow-list and --deny-list flags with the update command to define a list of IP addresses and CIDRs that the load balancer will accept or block incoming connections from.

To add or remove firewall rules via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

   doctl auth init
   

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4. Finally, add or remove firewall rules with doctl compute load-balancer update. The basic usage looks like this, but you’ll want to read the usage docs for more details:

   doctl compute load-balancer update <id> [flags]
   

You can find the full documentation here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to/manage/#add-or-remove-firewall-rules-from-a-load-balancer

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby