Vultr
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vultr is another cloud provider, like digitalocean.
it has a wider range of supported OS's, cheaper rates, even hosts windows if needed for CI.
Documentation
home https://www.vultr.com/ api https://www.vultr.com/api/
API
NOTE:
not all plans are exposed to API (notably cheapest are not)
list instances
curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \ -X GET \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}"get info to create an instance
curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/os" | jq | less curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/regions" | jq | less curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/ssh-keys" | jq | less curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans" | jq | grep -e '"id":' -e '"monthly_cost"' | sed 'N;s/\n/ /' | sort -g -k 4,4 | lesscreate an instance
curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \ -X POST \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \ -d '{ "region": "ewr", "plan": "vc2-6c-16gb", "label": "Example Instance", "os_id": 215, "user_data": "QmFzZTY0IEV4YW1wbGUgRGF0YQ==", "backups": "enabled", "hostname": "my_hostname" }'