Instacloud

Instacloud is an Agent-oriented infrastructure-layer platform launched by the Insforge team, with the slogan "instantly deploy code and services, no DevOps needed, everything auto-scales".

The usage flow of Instacloud includes initializing a project via `npx -y instacloud@latest setup agent`, then using a coding Agent such as Claude to operate the entire deployment process.

Instacloud's free tier provides $10 of usage credit per month, 4 vCPU + 4GB RAM + 1GB storage; the $20 tier upgrades to 8 vCPU + 8GB RAM + 10GB storage, supports up to 25 services, and inviting team members incurs no additional charge.

The tester used Instacloud to successfully deploy the open-source project Codebox (a LeetCode alternative) from scratch; the architecture includes a Node API (port 3000), a Redis queue, and a Docker-isolated code execution Worker.

During deployment, ioRedis version 5.9 does not send the TLS server name (SNI), causing the connection to Instacloud's Redis endpoint to be rejected; after the Agent fixed the configuration issue locally and re-pushed the code, the service returned to normal.

Instacloud's environment branch feature allows creating a complete infrastructure snapshot of the production environment as a staging branch; all services are copied, but use independent network and storage resources.

The tester successfully deployed three independent Postgres instances (PG1, PG2, PG3) at the same time, and each instance supports independent configuration, including viewing the connection string, scaling to zero, installing extensions, and creating backups.

Instacloud's compute environment does not support nested Docker (DinD), so tools that rely on DinD (such as the "just Postgres" project, Testcontainers, and some CI/CD systems) cannot run directly.