Developers use a series of steps to set up, run, manage, and stop an instance. The following stages describe an instance life cycle.
Provisioning
Provisioning an instance means setting the compute resources that the instance requires. When developers launch a provisioned instance, it goes into a pending stage.
Running
At this stage, the instance is deployed and active on the cloud. Developers can deploy workloads such as containerized applications on running instances. They are billed the moment an instance starts running.
Stopping
Developers might stop an instance to troubleshoot issues that affect the workloads that run on it. When they stop an instance, it enters the stopping stage before being completely halted. Developers can modify the setting of the instance setting when it’s stopped.
Terminated
Developers can shut down an instance when it is no longer in use. By shutting down an instance, the cloud platform prepares to terminate the instance and remove its corresponding data in the instance store volume. The instance store volume is temporary storage that resides on the same computer as the instance.