Concepts

• Apps: Apps is a deployment feature in the Compute section of the Console (Compute > Apps). You pick an app from the catalog, and the platform provisions an instance from a pre-built image with the...
• Cloud-init and First-boot Configuration: cloud-init is the industry-standard first-boot agent that runs inside Linux and BSD guests. When you launch an instance, Compute (OpenStack Nova) passes user data to the guest. cloud-init reads that...
• Flavors: Flavors define the resource shape of an instance: vCPU count, memory, root disk size, and optional ephemeral or swap storage. The Compute service (OpenStack Nova) exposes flavors as named resource...
• High Availability on Quake AI: A single instance running your application is a single point of failure. When that instance goes down (planned maintenance, hardware fault, or software crash), your users see an outage. High...
• Images: Images give each new instance the same starting point: operating system, tooling, and baseline configuration. The Images service (OpenStack Glance) lets you discover, register, and retrieve virtual...
• Instance Snapshots: Instance snapshots capture the full state of a running instance (root disk data, memory, and configuration) as an image you can store, clone from, or restore to. They are part of the Compute service...
• Instances: Instances are virtual machines (VMs) that run on Quake AI. They give you isolated compute (CPU, memory, disk, and network), so you deploy applications and services inside projects without sharing an...
• Key Pairs: Key pairs are the default way you prove you are allowed to log in to Linux instances without sending a password over the network. Quake AI stores the public half and injects it into the guest; you...
• Self-hosted AI on Cloud Infrastructure: Self-hosted AI means running language models on infrastructure you control. Your prompts and completions stay on your network. You pay a fixed compute cost (not per token), and you can run open-weight...
• Server Groups: Server groups apply placement policies (affinity or anti-affinity) that control whether your instances land on the same physical host or are spread across different hosts. The Compute service...