Ephemeral Instances

Ephemeral instances have a temporary boot disk that does not persist between instance stop and start. Ephemeral instances are well-suited for stateless worker nodes on inference clusters.

Create a Ephemeral Instance

API

To create a ephemeral instance via the REST API, send a POST request to the /instances endpoint with the ephemeral field set to true:

POST /instances HTTP/1.1
Host: <region>.atlas.fluidstack.io
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "example",
  "type": "cpu.8x",
  "ephemeral": true,
}

CLI

Use the fluidctl instances create command with the --ephemeral flag to create an ephemeral instance:

fluidctl instances create --region <region> --name "example" --type "cpu.8x" --ephemeral