# Cloud Firewalls – DigitalOcean Documentation

> Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.
- [Firewalls Support](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/support/index.html.md): Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.



## Getting Started with Cloud Firewalls

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

- [Firewalls Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

## Firewalls How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

- [How to Create Firewalls](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/how-to/create/index.html.md): Create a cloud firewall to restrict network traffic to and from specified Droplets.
- [How to Configure Firewall Rules](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/how-to/configure-rules/index.html.md): Create, modify, or delete firewall rules to restrict Droplets' inbound and outbound traffic based on ports, sources, and destinations.
- [How to Add and Remove Droplets from Firewalls](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/how-to/manage-droplets/index.html.md): Add Droplets to a firewall by name or by tag to apply the firewall's rules.
- [How to View All Firewall Rules Applied to a Droplet](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/how-to/view-rules-for-droplet/index.html.md): View the full set of firewall rules applied to a Droplet from all cloud firewalls.
- [How to Destroy Firewalls](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a firewall to remove it permanently from your account. Destroying a firewall does not destroy the Droplets that were associated with it.

## Firewalls Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Firewalls.

- [How to Organize DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/concepts/organization/index.html.md): Learn how to organize infrastructure involving cloud firewalls, like splitting rules across firewalls by role and using tags.

## Firewalls Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

- [Firewalls Features](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/details/features/index.html.md): Firewalls place a barrier between your servers and other machines on the network to protect them from external attacks. Firewalls can be host-based, which are configured on a per-server basis using services like IPTables or UFW. Others, like DigitalOcean …
- [Firewalls Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/details/pricing/index.html.md): DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls are available at no additional cost.
- [Firewalls Availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/details/availability/index.html.md): Cloud firewalls are available in every region. A cloud firewall’s rules can include Droplets from any datacenter.
- [Firewalls Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/details/limits/index.html.md): Limits and known issues for Firewalls.