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Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with webshell access from a browser

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Re: Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with webshell access from a browser

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Post by kristianp »

jchw wrote: post #4
sqrt17 wrote: post #2

What's the difference between a "docker run ubuntu:latest" and this?

It seems to be like that, but as a service. It looks like it's running over here: http://lxc.im

It's nice to be able to start up an ephemeral instance so quickly, and to be able to install packages too. Wouldn't it be fairly open to abuse though? You could make any kind of requests you like from these.

Re: Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with webshell access from a browser

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Post by jlgaddis »

maddyboo wrote: post #8

I'd like a service like this, but which I could just SSH to and automatically connect to a fresh Linux instance each time. It seems like it'd be pretty simple accomplish. You could continually pre-boot a number of Linux containers proportional to the amount of traffic you expect. When a user attempts to connect via SSH, just pop them into the next available instance, FIFO style. Users could either log in as 'anon' wi…

I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to coerce [x]inetd to spawn a new container -- instead of a daemon -- and connect you to it.
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