Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

Post by mschuster91 » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 12:57 AM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #40

mschuster91 wrote: post #30

How does this work? Given that its PID1 is not a "real" init process but a bash running the script `/google/scripts/onrun.sh` and its / being type `aufs`, I guess this is a Debian Docker instance?

Yep, /etc/debian_version is 9.3. It has a docker0 network interface (among others)

Post by toyg » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 12:58 AM UTC

alberts00 wrote: post #12

jwilk wrote: post #6

It's available for to anyone that has a Google account. You don't have to be a "Gmail user".

You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA. There is no private/personal option. This is a huge showstopper for me and, in my opinion, anyone who wants to use it for educational purposes.

Post by emmelaich » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 1:01 AM UTC

seoguru wrote: post #23

This is nice. If we could ssh into it, it would be great ! Is that feature coming soon?

Post by emmelaich » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 1:13 AM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #41

emmelaich wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, /etc/debian_version is 9.3. It has a docker0 network interface (among others)

> It has a docker0 network interface (among others) That's for the dockerd which is running inside the ... VM? The interesting thing is that the uptime and dmesg show that this system is not shared on the kernel level - if I were to guess, I'd say that Google allocates a real virtual machine with a tiny OS running Docker, starts the docker container inside this VM and then grants you webshell/ssh access to this Docke…

    $ docker pull hello-world
    $ docker run hello-world

    Hello from Docker!
    This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. 
    ....

Post by mschuster91 » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 1:26 AM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #48

mschuster91 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has a docker0 network interface (among others) That's for the dockerd which is running inside the ... VM? The interesting thing is that the uptime and dmesg show that this system is not shared on the kernel level - if I were to guess, I'd say that Google allocates a real virtual machine with a tiny OS running Docker, starts the docker container inside this VM and then grants you webshell/ssh access to this Docke…

Regarding whether it is a container or VM I'd guess the former. But not Docker. More likely Google's own container tech which I'm pretty sure way predated Docker.