[57north-discuss] Shitty VMs

[Tony Travis]

On 06/09/17 23:32, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On 06/09/17 22:55, Tony Travis wrote:
>> I guess you already know about the AWS 'free' tier:
> Seems a little too reliable with a little too much resource available.
> Plus it seems to support IPv4, which I hear is used by criminals for
> ~cybercrime~.

Hi, Iain.

Well, you might want to try the 'free' Google Cloud Shell:

> https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/

Welcome to Cloud Shell! Type "help" to get started.
tony_travis at optimal-card-179122:~$ dmesg | head
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64
(debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) )
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u3 (2017-08-15
)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
root=UUID=d3af367a-e809-4c84-9f09-973a257d2584 ro console=ttyS0,38400n8
panic=10 oops=pa
nic cgroup_enable=memory console=ttyS0
[    0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff]
reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff]
reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000265fcfff] usable
tony_travis at optimal-card-179122:~$ df -HT
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none           aufs    27G   17G  8.2G  68% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  312M     0  312M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs  312M     0  312M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1      ext4   5.2G   11M  4.9G   1% /home
/dev/sda1      ext4    27G   17G  8.2G  68% /etc/hosts
tmpfs          tmpfs   63M  439k   62M   1% /run/orion
shm            tmpfs   68M     0   68M   0% /dev/shm
tony_travis at optimal-card-179122:~$ Welcome to Cloud Shell! Type "help"
to get started.
@optimal-card-179122:~$ df -HT
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none           aufs    27G   17G  8.2G  68% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  312M     0  312M   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs  312M     0  312M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

Google's mission statement is "Don't be evil" so their resources won't
appeal to Cyber-criminals :-)

Why not try it - You know you want to:

> https://cloud.google.com/free/

YMMV,

  Tony.

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