Order a managed VM (App Servers)

What it's for

You don't have a server yet and don't want to shop for one — order a VM straight from the console and we provision and bootstrap it for you (Docker + edge agent included).

How to order

1. Go to App Servers → Add VM.
2. Give it a Name (lowercase, DNS-style).
3. Under Source, choose Provision (Terraform).
4. Fill in:
   • Flavor — small / medium / large.
   • Region — ru1 / ru2 / kz1 / eu1.
   • OS image — free-text, defaults to ubuntu-22.04.
   • SSH key name — free-text, defaults to dada-agent.
5. Submit. Status goes Provisioning → WaitingForAgent → Ready, same as a bring-your-own VM.

Gotchas

• This path skips the SSH-key-pasting step entirely — provisioning and agent install are handled for you.
• Same status caveats as bring-your-own: WaitingForAgent has no built-in timeout in the current UI.
• Once ordered, you manage the server the same way regardless of how it was created (list shows both terraform- and manually-connected VMs side by side, with Delete available as a row action for anyone with manage permission).

After it's Ready

Deploy to it by connecting to the VM directly (SSH in yourself) and setting up your compose stack, then use Adopt existing workloads to bring those containers into Dada as managed applications — there is no "create a fresh Compose app" form in the console; adoption is the only way a compose-based app enters Dada today.

Not yet supported

• Choosing a custom OS image/SSH key from a picker (both fields are free-text, no validation against what images/keys actually exist for the region).
• A guided "deploy your first compose stack to this new VM" flow — you still SSH in yourself and then adopt.