# API for managing instances?

## post by vicyap-rev on Jun 17, 2022

Hello, is there an API for managing instances? For launching and terminating instances?

- It would be nice to programmatically manage instances.
- This would make it possible to use IaC tools like Terraform.

Any information appreciated. Thank You!

## post by markd on Jun 20, 2022

The good news is the API is in progress and getting documented also right now.

And version 1.0 should be available in a few months.

Currently I would do it via a ssh tunnel, but you would need to manually spin it up/down via the web interface.

## post by wskish on Dec 20, 2022

Any update on API? It would be great to manage GPU instances here via terraform provider.

## post by cody_b on Jan 15, 2023

[@wskish](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/wskish) There’s now an API. [Here are some FAQs for using the API](https://docs.lambdalabs.com/tags/api/).