Cloud providers

You don't have to bring your own machine. Connect a cloud account and High provisions an outpost for you — a VM or a managed Kubernetes cluster — with the price shown before anything is created.

Connect a provider

An org owner connects a cloud account once, in the console under Settings. High verifies the credentials against the provider before storing them, and they're write-only from then on. Supported today: Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, Scaleway, UpCloud, StackIt, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Alibaba, and IBM.

Provision an outpost

Browse a provider's catalog (sorted cheapest-first) and provision what you need. A server is a plain VM that self-enrols in about a minute; a cluster is managed Kubernetes that High bootstraps an agent onto, ready in roughly 5–15 minutes. Either way it lands in your fleet as an outpost, on your overlay, no SSH keys handed out and firewalls managed for you.

See the price first

Provisioning always shows the cost and waits for you to confirm — there's no way to spin up spend by accident. The first call comes back with an estimate; approve it and the same call proceeds.

{
  "tool": "provision_node",
  "arguments": {
    "provider": "hetzner",
    "serverType": "cx22",
    "location": "fsn1"
  }
}

Refused — confirm the cost first:
  1 × cx22 at hetzner (fsn1) ≈ €4.35/month
retry with confirmCost: true

{
  "tool": "provision_node",
  "arguments": {
    "provider": "hetzner", "serverType": "cx22",
    "confirmCost": true
  }
}

✓ acme-node provisioning · enrolled in ~1 min

Tearing down

Delete an outpost from the console and High deprovisions the underlying server or cluster with it — the machine is gone, not just detached. If a provisioned node never manages to enrol, High reaps it automatically once its enrolment token expires, so a half-finished provision doesn't quietly bill you.