Connect a compute provider
Check the availability of provider connections and find the machine controls.
What you'll have
Know whether provider connection is available and where to start a machine.
Planned Providers in Settings shows Coming soon. Connecting your own compute provider through this pane is unavailable. It has no connection form or credential fields.
Open Settings from the channel list.
Result Settings opens with the sections available to your account.
Under Account, open Providers.
Result The pane states that provider connection is coming soon.
If this doesn't work
If Providers is absent, use the settings sections available to your account. There is no connection procedure to complete in this pane. Don’t paste provider credentials into a conversation as a substitute.
Starting a machine
The channel creation dialog can offer Start a Sandbox. This creates a machine for the new channel without connecting a provider through Settings. The available sizes and images come from the options shown in that dialog. Their displayed figures describe the current choices; a size name alone doesn’t establish a fixed CPU or memory allowance.
An empty image list uses the image supplied by the application. A catalogue read failure is a separate condition and appears in the dialog. The application can refuse a request because a size or image is unavailable, permission is missing, or the workspace has reached its running-machine limit. The refusal identifies the reason rather than a guaranteed waiting time.
The machine card offers actions such as Open terminal, Retry and Wake when its state permits them. A deleted machine requires a new machine; it’s not a disconnected session to reattach. An archived channel can prevent a new request.
Provider connection, custom image administration, dotfiles and preparation scripts are separate settings. A control labelled Coming soon doesn’t save a working configuration. Set a sandbox environment sets the environment variables and secrets a Sandbox starts with. Share a preview exposes a port in a running Sandbox through a tunnel.