NODED.CLOUD/Use cases/CI/CD & ephemeral environments

Hosting for CI/CD runners & ephemeral environments.

Spin up a runner or a per-PR preview, run the suite, tear it down. Pay-as-you-go VPS hosting from €0.006/hr with per-second billing and hourly + monthly caps, ready in a median 47 seconds. Self-hosted GitHub Actions, GitLab and Woodpecker runners via the REST API and Terraform — no commit, no minimums, no idle-runner tax.

€0.006/hr · per-second47 sspin-upAPIREST + Terraform0commitment · minimums
noded — ci runner
1$ noded vps create --hourly --pop fra-1
2✓ runner ready in 47s
3$ ./ci run --suite e2e
4› 482 passed · 0 failed · 6m12s
5$ noded vps destroy → billed €0.006
per-secondTerraformscale to 0
€0.006/hr
per-second billing
47 s
runner spin-up
scale to 0
no idle tax
API
REST + Terraform
01 · The loop

Create, run, destroy.

Infrastructure that exists exactly as long as the job does — and bills exactly that long.
CREATE

A fresh runner in 47 seconds.

NVMe-imaged KVM VPS provision faster than your test matrix runs. Call the REST API or Terraform from your pipeline to bring up self-hosted GitHub Actions, GitLab or Woodpecker runners on demand.

  • Spin-up47 s median
  • RunnersActions · GitLab · CI
  • IaCREST API · Terraform
  • OS41 templates
RUN

Deterministic builds, no jitter.

Dedicated-CPU shapes give your runners guaranteed cycles, so build and test times stay consistent instead of swinging with a noisy neighbour. NVMe keeps dependency installs and caches fast.

  • CPUdedicated shapes
  • DiskNVMe cache
  • Network1 Gbps unmetered
  • Consistencyrun-to-run
DESTROY

Pay per second, scale to zero.

Per-second metering with hourly and monthly caps means a 12-minute build costs cents and a torn-down runner costs nothing. No commitment, no minimums, no idle-capacity tax sitting on your invoice.

  • Billingper second
  • Capshourly + monthly
  • Idle€0 — scale to 0
  • Commitnone
02 · Pipeline-ready

Built for the throwaway box.

Fast spin-up, per-second cost, real IaC and dedicated cycles — everything an ephemeral workload wants and nothing it doesn’t pay for.

Per-second billing

Metered per second from €0.006/hr with hourly and monthly caps. Spin up, run the suite, tear down — pay for the minutes you used, nothing more.

47-second spin-up

NVMe-imaged KVM VPS ready in a median 47 seconds, so a fresh runner or preview environment is faster than your test matrix.

API + Terraform

Create and destroy runners from your pipeline over the REST API or Terraform. Self-hosted GitHub Actions, GitLab and Woodpecker runners on demand.

Dedicated-CPU shapes

No noisy neighbours stealing cycles mid-build. Dedicated-CPU VPS keep build and test times deterministic across runs.

Per-PR preview envs

Stand up an ephemeral environment per pull request, share a URL, and destroy it on merge. EU + US POPs put previews near your reviewers.

No commit, no minimums

No contracts, no seat minimums, no idle-runner tax. White-label-friendly billing for agencies running fleets of client environments.

04 · Hourly or monthly?

Burst by the hour, or park a runner.

Same VPS, two billing shapes — pick by how the work arrives.
HOURLY VPS

Per-second runners

Create a runner for a build or a preview env and destroy it after. Per-second billing with caps — ideal for bursty CI, per-PR environments and short client demos.

  • From€0.006/hr
  • Billingper second
  • Best forbursty CI · previews
  • Idle cost€0
  • Setupinstant
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vs
MONTHLY VPS

A standing runner

For a runner that’s always busy, a flat monthly VPS from €4/mo is cheaper than the hourly cap. Same box, same network — switch billing without rebuilding.

  • From€4/mo
  • Billingflat monthly
  • Best foralways-on runner
  • Cappredictable
  • Setupinstant
See the API
05 · FAQ

Things people ask.

Quick answers to the questions we get most. Need more? Talk to us.
Q.01
Can I use NODED.CLOUD for CI/CD runners?
Yes. Provision NVMe KVM VPS as self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Woodpecker, Jenkins or Drone via our REST API or Terraform. They spin up in a median 47 seconds and bill per second from €0.006/hr, so you create them for a build and destroy them after — no idle-runner cost.
Q.02
How does pay-as-you-go billing work?
VPS are metered per second with an hourly cap and a monthly cap, so a box you run for 12 minutes costs ~€0.0012 and a box you leave up all month never exceeds the monthly price. There is no commitment, no seat minimum and no charge for capacity you tore down.
Q.03
Can I create per-PR preview environments?
Yes. Wire the API or Terraform into your pipeline to deploy an ephemeral environment per pull request, expose a real URL for reviewers, and destroy it on merge. EU and US POPs keep previews close to your team, and teardown means you only pay while the PR is open.
Q.04
Will builds be consistent run to run?
Use dedicated-CPU VPS shapes and your runners get guaranteed cycles instead of fighting noisy neighbours, so build and test times stay deterministic. NVMe storage keeps dependency installs and caches fast.
Q.05
Is this suitable for an agency running many client environments?
Yes. There are no contracts or minimums, billing is per second, and the API makes fleets of short-lived staging and demo boxes easy to manage. It is a clean fit for agencies that need throwaway environments per client without a standing bill.
Wire it into your pipeline

Stand up a runner in 47 seconds.

Call the API or Terraform, run your suite, tear it down. Per-second billing, hourly and monthly caps, no commitment.

What you get
From€0.006/hr
Billingper second
Spin-up47 s
IaCREST + Terraform
Idle cost€0