Reserve a public IPv4 address within a specific region for future assignment to a resource. Because Reserved IPs are tied to a specific datacenter's network infrastructure, they can't be moved across regions. However, they provide a persistent public entry point for your cloud infrastructure inside that region, independent of the underlying resource. Unlike ephemeral IPs that are recycled upon deletion, a reserved IP remains in your account until manually released.

Benefits:

• Rebuild or migrate Linodes and NodeBalancers without changing your public-facing IP.
• Eliminates the need to update allowlists, firewall rules, automation scripts, or DNS records during deployments.
• Maintain ownership of the address during failovers or maintenance windows when it may be temporarily unassigned.
• Billed at a flat monthly rate per IP, regardless of assignment status. Unreserving an IP stops billing immediately and returns the address to the general pool, where it can't be recovered.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

• OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

  • Scopes: ips:read_write

CLI

linode-cli networking reserved-ip-add \
  --region us-east \
  --tags NB1,Linode1

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