Quick Start - Private Network – Exoscale Documentation

Quick Start - Private Network

Warning

Private Networks are reaching end of life: they are no longer available for new workloads. Build new workloads on Exoscale Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) instead, starting with the VPC quick start. Existing Private Networks keep working until their end of life, 180 days after the notice emailed to the owners of the organizations that use them. The migration guide shows how to move them. Private Networks linked to Private Connect are not affected.

To attach one instance to your Private Network on the Portal, go to the instance details and click on Add Private Network:

Activate Private Network for an instance

To attach an instance to your Private Network on the CLI:

exo compute instance private-network attach my-instance my-network

Output:

 ✔ Attaching instance "my-instance" to Private Network "my-network"... 6s
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│   COMPUTE INSTANCE   │                                      │
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ID                   │ 0e713d4c-9f3f-4a9a-b958-b4571450d3a8 │
│ Name                 │ my-instance                          │
│ Creation Date        │ 2019-03-08 15:07:14 +0000 UTC        │
│ Instance Type        │ standard.tiny                        │
│ Template             │ Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit        │
│ Zone                 │ ch-gva-2                             │
│ Anti-Affinity Groups │ n/a                                  │
│ Security Groups      │ default                              │
│ Private Networks     │ my-network                           │
│ Elastic IPs          │ n/a                                  │
│ IP Address           │ 185.19.30.32                         │
│ IPv6 Address         │ 2a04:c43:e00:588:4fe:9cef:fe00:23f   │
│ SSH Key              │ admin                                │
│ Disk Size            │ 10 GiB                               │
│ State                │ running                              │
│ Labels               │ n/a                                  │
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼

After the instance is attached to the Private Network, you will see the MAC address of the additional interface:

If you log into your instance, a new interface will be visible.

Repeat the operation for each instance you want to join the Private Network. Some operating systems, such as OpenBSD, will require a reboot for the new network interface to appear.

Last updated on October 26, 2026