Configuring a Static IP address on your Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04+) Server

When installing the server, you have likely installed the SSH server, or have another way to directly connect to the server.

If you followed our guide to setup the server, you are all set

Installing Ubuntu 24.04 – Noble

Once you connect to the server, either through SSH or directly. You can edit the following file. We used nano but you can use VI or any other editor already present. Every Ubuntu installation provides at least Nano and VI.

For Ubuntu 24.04 use:

sudo nano /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml

For Ubuntu 22.04 use:

sudo nano /etc/netplan/00-cloud-init.yaml

On a straight, un-customized, installation, like the guide, the contents of that file will be

You can leave the comments but you would replace the dhcp4: true line with something like

In the example we would assign ourselves the IP address 1.2.3.4 on a subnet of 255.255.255.0 (/32). Also for this example, the router’s IP address is 1.2.3.255.

Below an example to copy/past

Your IP Address
Your Router IP

# This file is generated from information provided by the datasource.  Changes
# to it will not persist across an instance reboot.  To disable cloud-init's
# network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
network:
  ethernets:
    eth0:
      dhcp4: no
      addresses: [1.2.3.4/32]
      nameservers:
        addresses: [8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4]
      routes:
      - to: default
        via: 1.2.3.255

  version: 2

Just a note, but don’t use TAB in this file. It does not allow it, a TAB is really just 2 spaces.

We can now save and exit nano (CTRL+o, CTRL+x), and apply our netplan.

sudo netplan apply

That’s it, you now are using a static IP address.

Just a note for those on the SSH connection, you will be disconnected the instant you hit the apply command. You will have to reconnect to the new IP address in order to get back on the server.