CloudStream › Private network & labs
All your machines sit on a VLAN that is yours alone. They reach each other directly on any port, which is what a Kubernetes cluster, a database behind app servers or a networking lab needs.
An example machine costs 9.78 credits an hour (≈ 0.10 EUR).
Create one machine for the control plane and a few workers, install k3s, kubeadm or MicroK8s, and the nodes find each other on the private network. Publish the ingress or the API through a machine's public ports. When the experiment is over, delete the machines and stop paying.
Install pfSense, OPNsense, VyOS or MikroTik CHR from an ISO and put machines behind it. Practise routing, firewalls, VPNs, DHCP and DNS on real operating systems, without buying hardware and without risking a real network.
Your VLAN carries only your machines. Other customers' machines are on their own VLANs and cannot reach yours; yours reach the internet, and the internet reaches only the public ports you use.
No. Every customer has one, and every machine you build is placed on it.
Enough for a cluster or a lab of several machines.
Yes. It suits practising for networking and Kubernetes exams, because the machines are real operating systems that you can break and rebuild.
It takes an account, a few credits and a couple of minutes.