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VM Management

The vms manager creates, lists, updates, deletes, clones, and snapshots VMs directly.

List VMs​

from instavm import InstaVM

client = InstaVM('your_api_key')

vms = client.vms.list()
for vm in vms:
    print(f"{vm['vm_id']}: {vm.get('status', 'unknown')}")

Create VM​

vm = client.vms.create(
    wait=True,
    vm_lifetime_seconds=3600,
    memory_mb=2048,
    vcpu_count=4,
    metadata={"project": "data-processing"},
    egress_policy={
        "allow_https": True,
        "allow_http": False,
        "allowed_domains": ["api.example.com"]
    }
)

print(f"VM: {vm['vm_id']}")
print(f"SSH: {vm.get('ssh_host')}")

Set wait=True to block until the VM is ready.

Update VM​

result = client.vms.update(
    vm_id="vm_abc123",
    memory_mb=4096,
    egress_policy={
        "allow_https": True,
        "allowed_domains": ["api.example.com", "cdn.example.com"]
    },
    snapshot_on_terminate=True,
    snapshot_name="final-state"
)

Delete VM​

success = client.vms.delete(vm_id="vm_abc123")

Clone VM​

Create a copy of a running VM:

cloned = client.vms.clone(
    vm_id="vm_abc123",
    wait=True,
    snapshot_name="cloned-from-abc123"
)
print(f"Clone: {cloned['vm_id']}")

Snapshot VM​

Capture the current state of a VM:

snapshot = client.vms.snapshot(
    vm_id="vm_abc123",
    wait=True,
    name="my-snapshot"
)
print(f"Snapshot: {snapshot['snapshot_id']}")

Metadata filtering​

Attach metadata to VMs and filter by it:

# Create with metadata
vm = client.vms.create(
    wait=True,
    metadata={"project": "data-analysis", "team": "data-science"}
)

# List filtered by metadata
vms = InstaVM.list(api_key='your_api_key', metadata={"project": "data-analysis"})
for v in vms:
    print(f"{v.vm_id}: {v.metadata}")

Next steps​