Overview – Kiste Docs

A Kiste is a cloud machine of your own. This section covers its whole life, from kiste new to kiste delete. In short:

kiste new review-42 --no-ssh      # create and start; select it as current
kiste list                        # all your Kisten
kiste status review-42 --usage    # one Kiste, with live CPU, memory and disk
kiste stop --snapshot             # stop and keep the session
kiste start review-42             # resume where you left off
kiste fork review-42-try --source review-42   # independent copy of a running Kiste
kiste snapshot create --name before-upgrade   # a named restore point
kiste delete review-42            # the Kiste and its disk, permanently

Create a Kiste

Names, sizes, lifetimes, images, environments and what happens at creation.

Lifecycle

Stop, stop with session, resume, restart, lifetimes and idle behaviour.

Checkpoints and snapshots

Automatic encrypted off-site checkpoints, named snapshots and restore.

Fork

Copy a running Kiste into an independent one.

Manage

Inspect, rename, extend, update, read logs and delete.

Images and environments

The universal image, custom images and launch environments.

Automation

Watch state, read events and drive Kisten from scripts.

The console lists them under Machines, with the same actions.