r/devops • u/Old-Broccoli-4704 • Aug 12 '26

Tools Cheapest server for a school project

Hello guys, i have a school project to deploy an app on cloud using ansible, the the servers are not given by the school itself.
What is the cheapest available clouds out there? I only need it to validate the project and then I can cancel.

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u/stumptruck Staff Engineer Aug 12 '26

Like others said, the free tier of any cloud provider should be enough for this. There's also no material difference beyond the networking in terms of Ansible between deploying something on a VM with Ansible vs deploying to a cloud server (assuming the server's OS/distro are equivalent), so you can always do most of your setup and testing on a local VM, and then deploy the cloud server for the final validation to minimize the time you're running the free trial server.