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Virtual machines for your next project

A virtual machine gives you an operating system of your own. Use it to explore Linux, run development tools or build an application without changing your everyday computer.

Choose a VM when you want control of the operating system

A VM is a useful starting point for an API, a personal tool or software that expects a conventional server. You choose how to install and configure your application, manage its processes and maintain the guest operating system.

DCS provides the resource and browser console. You remain responsible for operating-system updates, application security and copies of data you need. This beta is for noncritical work and does not include a backup or availability guarantee.

CPU, memory and storage are visible before deployment

The resource wizard shows the selected plan’s CPU, RAM and disk allocation. An organisation’s free-beta grant must cover the request, and the host must also have capacity. A grant is permission to request resources, not a reservation of physical capacity.

The initial beta has a service-wide ceiling of ten virtual machines. Stopped resources continue to occupy their allocation. Deleting a VM removes its disks; copy anything you need before you delete it.

From resource selection to the browser console

  1. After deployment access opens, sign in to your invited organisation and choose Create a resource.
  2. Select a VM plan, a project and a private network. Review the allocation and free-beta entitlement.
  3. Follow the saved order in the console. Once the machine is ready, open its browser console to finish installing and configuring the operating system.
  4. Install your application and check it locally. Public HTTP publishing is a separate action; creating a VM does not publish every port.

Private networking and public applications

Keep development services inside your project’s private network. For an HTTP application, the publishing workflow can route a generated HTTPS address to a chosen guest port once publishing is enabled for your environment.

Public publishing does not provide general public SSH, TCP or WebSocket forwarding in this beta. Protect any application you publish with its own authentication when it contains private information.