These cloud servers are based on shared resources, offering the same features as those with guaranteed resources, but at a lower cost. You can manage these instances in the way you are already familiar with, and use the same tools to deploy tests and developments on a flexible platform, while benefiting from an unbeatable feature/price ratio.
Sandbox instances benefit from the Public Cloud ecosystem, including the OpenStack APIs, as well as the entire associated orchestration system. As a result, they can be used as test servers to validate a deployment, configuration and various types of automation.
Sandbox instances are perfectly suited to meet the needs of continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) systems. Tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI and others connect directly to OpenStack APIs to orchestrate your integration tests.
Need to boot hundreds of instances to check your application’s horizontal scaling capabilities, or just simulate a large number of workers? These cloud servers are deployed in a matter of seconds, and can be used to test these scenarios at full scale.
Boot an instanceopenstack server create --flavor s1-4 --image debian server01
Boot 100 instances of the same typeopenstack server create --flavor s1-4 --image debian
Start with the smallest instance from the catalogue, and upscale it to suit your changing needs.
As with the Guaranteed Resources range, these instances can achieve a rich network connection, offering you flexible and scalable architectures that can be hot-scaled.
As with all other instances, you can add storage volumes to increase the available space on cloud servers.
Sandbox instances are the most accessible of the range. They are billed like all of our other instances, on a pay-as-you-go basis at the end of each month. The price depends on the size of the instance you have booted, and the duration of its use.
