VLANs - Guides

Published October 22, 2020

Fully isolated virtual local area networks that enable private communication between cloud-based resources

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Basics

Use Cases: Learn how VLANs can be utilized by exploring some common scenarios.
Getting Started with VLANs: An introduction to VLANs, including how to create and administer them within the Cloud Manager.
Attach a VLAN to a Compute Instance: Learn how to create a VLAN and attach it to a new or existing Compute Instance.
Remove a Compute Instance from a VLAN

Going Further

Manually Configuring a VLAN on a Linode: Manually configure an attached VLAN by adjusting a Linode’s internal network configuration files.
Creating a Private Network Using Linode API and Linode VLAN: This guide shows you how to create a VLAN and attach Linodes to it using the Linode APIv4.
Configure Linux as a Router (IP Forwarding): In this tutorial, connect multiple Compute Instances to the same VLAN and learn how to configure one of them as a router. This allows some or all instances in the private network to share the same public IP address.

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