Getting Started

Introduction

Unikraft Cloud is a from-first-principles virtualization solution and cloud platform based on MicroVMs which provides best-in-class performance, security, and scalability.

Running your app on Unikraft Cloud is like running a container but with hardware isolation, millisecond cold starts, and stateful scale-to-zero.

Expect higher server density, cost-savings, I/O performance boosts, active vCPU pricing and much more.

New: GPU support in enterprise preview - read more here.

Quick start

Create a free account.
Install the Unikraft CLI.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://unikraft.com/cli/install.sh | sh

See alternative installation instructions for other platforms.
Authenticate with your account.
```
Code
unikraft login
```

Deploy your first scale-to-zero, serverless app with Unikraft Cloud.

Code
unikraft run \
 --metro fra \
 --publish 443:8080/http+tls \
 --scale-to-zero policy=on,cooldown-time=1000 \
 --image nginx:latest

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Last modified on October 15, 2026

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