# Introduction

> InstaCloud is the cloud infrastructure built from the ground up to serve agents.

Traditional devtools were built by humans to serve humans. When a swarm of agents operates the infrastructure, that model has to change: environments must clone fast and be disposable, credentials can't live in prompts, and every operation has to be legible to agents, not a dashboard.

InstaCloud provides the three basic primitives, rebuilt on those terms: **database** (real Postgres), **storage** (S3-compatible buckets), and **compute** (containers, run in microVMs on the hosted platform). Serverless, branchable, and built for your agent to do everything on top.

## Start here

<Steps>
  <Step title="Install the CLI">
    <CodeGroup>

    ```bash npx
    npx insta@latest agent setup
    ```

    ```bash npm
    npm install -g insta
    ```

    ```bash title="Shell installer (macOS/Linux)"
    curl -fsSL https://agents.instacloud.com | sh
    ```

    </CodeGroup>

    The npx path also wires up any coding agents on your machine; npm installs just the CLI.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Deploy your app">
    Open your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent the setup wired) in a directory with a Dockerfile and tell it:

    ```text title="Your prompt"
    Deploy this app on InstaCloud with a Postgres database wired in.
    ```

    You complete the one-time login; the agent drives the rest. The result is a running app on its own URL, with its database connection injected. Under the hood the agent runs the [insta CLI](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/reference/cli/overview), which you can also drive by hand.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Keep going">
    The [quickstart](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/quickstart) walks through each step, including your first branch; [agent setup](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/agents/setup) covers what the agent wiring installs. From there, the primitives: [Postgres](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/postgres/overview), [storage](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/storage/overview), and [compute](https://www.instacloud.com/docs/compute/overview).
  </Step>
</Steps>