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Sizes

MicroVMs are available in the following sizes. In the API and doctl, memory is set in MiB.

Some sizes are not available on every plan. In the Control Panel, an unavailable size is marked Not available on your current plan. To see the sizes available to your team, run doctl compute microvm options or send a GET request to /v2/microvms/options.

Limits

• MicroVMs are available only in MKC1.
• MicroVMs run linux/amd64 images only.
• Your team has a limit on the total number of MicroVMs. The limit counts both running and paused MicroVMs. To see it, run doctl compute microvm options.
• You cannot change a MicroVM after creation. This includes its image, size, disk, idle timeout, environment variables, tags, ports, networking, region, and auto-resume.
• You cannot turn auto-pause off. The maximum idle timeout is 4 hours.
• You can turn auto-resume off only at creation, with doctl or the API. The Control Panel does not have a setting for it.
• MicroVMs do not have swap. A MicroVM cannot use more memory than its size provides.
• A MicroVM’s endpoint reaches only its HTTP port. You can declare up to five ports with ports in the API or --ports in doctl, but the other ports are not reachable.
• A MicroVM created from a checkpoint must use the checkpoint’s region and size, and inherits its environment variables.
• API tokens with the microvm:access scope can reach every MicroVM on the team. You cannot scope a token to a single MicroVM.
• Images you import in the Control Panel are available only in the Control Panel. The API and doctl take an image reference directly.
• You cannot add a MicroVM to a project.
• The Control Panel cannot open a console or run commands in a MicroVM. Use doctl or the API. The Droplet console in the Control Panel does not connect to MicroVMs.
• MicroVMs do not support IPv6, Cloud Firewalls, or a public IP address on the MicroVM.

Command and Console Limits

• A command has 60 seconds to finish.
• Your team can run 32 commands at once and 60 commands per minute. Rejected requests also count toward the per-minute limit.
• A command’s combined stdout and stderr are limited to 4 MiB. Longer output is cut off, and the response includes "truncated": true. doctl prints a warning when this happens.
• A command request body can be up to 1 MiB.
• A MicroVM can have four consoles open at a time. A console closes after 4 hours, or after 30 minutes with no input and no output.
• A console message can be up to 1 MiB. A larger message, such as a large paste, closes the console with WebSocket code 1009.
• Console rows and cols must each be between 1 and 65535.