Connect a server provider

How it works

Nuvlo does not sell servers. Every server you create runs in your own cloud account, and the provider bills you for it directly.

To do that, Nuvlo needs an API key from the provider. Each provider has its own guide for creating a key with the right permissions:

Create the key in the provider’s console first, then come back to Nuvlo and follow the steps below.

Connect from the server wizard instead

You can also connect while creating a server. In Create server, providers you haven’t connected show Connect account. Select one and a Connect panel opens with the same fields.

Fill them in and click Validate & connect. Nuvlo checks the key, saves it and moves you to the next step.

What Nuvlo does with your key

• It reads regions, plans, prices and operating system images so the server wizard shows what your account can order.
• It creates the servers you ask for, and later resizes, snapshots, backs up, restores and deletes them when you use those actions in Nuvlo.
• For DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, UpCloud and Exoscale it reads your balance with the provider, so provider bill reminders show real amounts.
• It only changes servers you created in Nuvlo or picked there. Your other servers in the same cloud account are left alone.

Keys are encrypted before they are stored. Once saved, the secret part of a key is not sent back to your browser. Only an owner or admin can show it again, after confirming it’s them, and each time it’s shown this is recorded in the account’s activity log.

The key can create servers that cost money, so treat it like a password and revoke it at the provider if you stop using Nuvlo.

Connect more than one account

You can connect as many accounts as you like, including several of the same provider. For example, one Hetzner project for your own sites and one for a client. Give each a clear label.

When you create a server, you choose the account in the Account dropdown. The server stays linked to that account. Your Nuvlo plan limits the number of servers, not the number of provider accounts. See Usage and limits.

Rename an account or replace its key

Click Manage next to the account. You can change the Account label and paste a new key. A secret left empty keeps the saved one. Use a key from the same provider account (for Hetzner, the same project): a key for another account can’t see the servers created with the old one.

A new key is checked with the provider before it replaces the old one, so a broken key never overwrites a working one. Click Save account to finish.

To see the saved key, click the eye icon (Show value). Only an owner or admin can do this.

Disconnect a provider account

Open the actions menu at the end of the row and choose Delete account. Confirm with Delete account in the dialog.

ImportantYour servers keep running, and the provider keeps billing for them. To stop paying, delete the servers in Nuvlo before you delete the provider account.

Deleting the account in Nuvlo does not touch anything at the provider. You can still manage sites on its servers, because that works over SSH.

What changes is the work that needs the provider: deleting a server, resizing, snapshots and provider backups. For those, Nuvlo uses another connected key for the same provider if you have one. If you don’t, these actions fail until you connect the account again.

The key itself still works at the provider after you delete it from Nuvlo. Revoke it in the provider’s console if you no longer need it.

Who can do this

Owners and admins can change what Developers and Viewers may do with integrations. See Roles and permissions.