InstaBox

InstaBox gives you Linux VMs in the cloud ("machines", also called sandboxes): 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 20 GiB persistent /data, Docker and root. You drive them from the CLI, plain HTTP, or the TypeScript SDK. Every change is asynchronous and returns an operation you wait on.

• Base URL: https://api.instabox.sh
• Auth: X-API-Key: ibk_... (or Authorization: Bearer ibk_...)
• Docs: https://instabox.sh/docs · OpenAPI: https://api.instabox.sh/v1/openapi.json

Credentials

Read the key from the environment; never inline it in code, a browser bundle, a screenshot or a commit.

export INSTABOX_API_KEY=ibk_...            # required
export INSTABOX_API_URL=https://api.instabox.sh   # optional, this is the default

Keep it in a .env that is gitignored, load it in the shell (set -a; . ./.env; set +a), and use a secret store in production. A key with machines:write can read the account's Vault through exec in a machine it creates: pass "vault": false for machines that run other people's code.