Getting started

This guide gets you from a new DollarBox account to a ready place to deploy services.

Before you start

You need:

A DollarBox account.
A payment card for billing.
A public Linux container image, unless you plan to use kubectl mode first.
IPv6 connectivity when you want to reach the service directly from your own machine.

1. Create an account

Go to the signup page and create an account. After sign-up you land in an org. The org owns billing, containers, and kubectl access.

2. Set up billing

Open Billing and add a payment method, choosing annual (€11/container/year — one month free) or monthly (€1/container/month) billing. Prices exclude VAT; the total including any VAT for your country is shown before you pay. The control panel will ask you to set up billing before creating your first container.

Each subscribed dollarbox provides capacity for one running workload shape:

Resource	Included per dollarbox
Pods	1 app pod
Memory	1Gi limit
CPU	100m request, 1000m limit
Ephemeral storage quota	10Gi
Public service	1 IPv6 LoadBalancer

Failed containers still reserve capacity until you delete them.

The ephemeral disk is wiped when a container restarts. Important: If you're using kubectl mode, the local-path storage class also stores data on a single node and can lose data permanently during node upgrades or maintenance. For data that needs to survive restarts and node-level events, pre-pay for a pool of persistent volume capacity using the longhorn storage class at €0.10/GB/month.

3. Choose a deploy mode

Use simple mode when you want the control panel to create one public container from an image reference. This is the fastest path for a small HTTP service.

Use kubectl mode when you want to apply Kubernetes manifests yourself. You still get namespace-scoped access only, not cluster-admin access, and the same quota applies.

Expected result

At the end of setup you should have: