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 | less

create 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"
}'