Create Your First Container
Provision a real Linux container, log in over SSH, and verify the resource limits work.
Containers are long-running Linux machines that you control over SSH. They are the right primitive for anything you would normally rent a small VPS for: a Discord bot, a Minecraft server, a Node API, a webhook receiver, a cron-driven scraper.
Provisioning
- Open Containers in the sidebar and click New Container.
- Pick a name (1–64 characters, letters/numbers/hyphens).
- CPU and RAM are dynamic — your container bursts onto free capacity and shares fairly when the node is busy, so there is nothing to size. Disk is allocated separately from your account storage quota.
- Pick an OS image — Ubuntu 22.04 is the safest default.
- Click Deploy. The container moves through queued → creating → running over about 30 seconds.
Connecting over SSH
Once the container is running, the detail page shows you the SSH host, port, and password. Connect from any terminal:
bash
ssh -p <PORT> root@<HOST>
# password is shown on the container detail pageVerifying limits
Your container's memory ceiling is enforced by Docker cgroups, while CPU is shared (it bursts onto free cores). To confirm the limits from inside the container:
bash
# RAM ceiling
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max
# CPU quota (quota / period = cores)
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu.max