E2B

Airship launches one E2B sandbox per job in your team, with a team API key. Airship deletes the sandbox when the job completes; its timeout is the backstop.

Connect

Create a team API key

In the E2B dashboard, create an API key (e2b_...).

Connect it

In Airship’s dashboard, Cloud → E2B: paste the key. A self-hosted E2B takes its domain as well.

curl -X POST "$AIRSHIP_API/cloud-connect" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIRSHIP_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cloud": "e2b", "credentials": {"api_key": "e2b_..."}}'

Configure

airship.yaml

runners:
  - name: micro
    cloud: e2b
    instance_type: ci-runner:4vcpu   # a template, optionally with more vCPUs
    labels: [airship-micro]
    extra_config:
      docker: true

Field	On E2B
`instance_type`	A template’s name or ID (`base`, or one you built), optionally `:<n>vcpu` for more vCPUs, up to the template’s maximum. The template fixes memory and disk
`machine_image`	Leave it empty: the template is the image. Build a template from a Dockerfile in E2B to preinstall tools
`region`	None; leave it out
`extra_config.docker`	Installs and starts a Docker daemon before the runner

Plan limits

E2B caps a sandbox’s timeout by plan: one hour on Hobby, 24 hours on Pro. Airship asks for the runner’s lifetime plus 15 minutes, so a Hobby team refuses every launch with a permanent error naming the limit. Use Pro, or shorten your runner lifetime.

What Airship creates

A sandbox with metadata airship-installation, airship-runner-id and airship-repository. Creation carries the runner’s ID as its idempotency key, so a retried launch returns the same sandbox. Airship uploads the boot script through the sandbox’s daemon and starts it as a tagged process. Auto-pause is off, so a timed-out sandbox is gone rather than paused.

Early access: tested against a model of E2B’s API on every build, not yet run against the live service.

Getting started

Your cloud

Sandbox clouds

Runner configuration

Faster pipelines

Across an organization

Running Airship

Self-hosting

Connect

Configure

Plan limits

What Airship creates