[Free VPS] Free Linux Container from Goorm IDE SaaS Website - ide.goorm.io

goormIDE is a web-based cloud programming tool. It provides a nice Free plan to use which you can create five container and each of them can have 1G ram, 10GB storage. In this post, I am gonna show you how to get it and some basic usage.

Free Tier Plan

Website URL : https://ide.goorm.io/

Features	Free
Container slots	5
CPU/Container	Low
Memory/Container	1024MB
Storage/Container	10GB
Traffic	1GB
Collaborators/Container	5
Guests/Container	3
Domains/Container	3
Concurrent run	1
Images	―
Custom domains/Container	―
Always-on	―

Steps

1 Go to https://ide.goorm.io/ to sign up an account

2 Sign in 

3 After signed in, you can click "New container" button to create a new container based on Wordpress template

4 Run the container

Here is the IDE interface you will get:

Setting page

5 access our website from a random generated goorm site subdomain

Result :

Restart Services

Goorm will put container into sleep mode after a couple of hours. Your service might not automatically come up. In this case, you will need to manually restart your services:

root@goorm:~/.vnc# service --help
Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]
root@goorm:~/.vnc# service --status-all
 [ + ]  apache-htcacheclean
 [ - ]  apache2
 [ ? ]  apport
 [ - ]  cron
 [ - ]  dbus
 [ - ]  hddtemp
 [ ? ]  hwclock.sh
 [ - ]  lm-sensors
 [ - ]  mysql
 [ - ]  procps
 [ + ]  ssh
 [ + ]  udev
 [ - ]  unattended-upgrades
 [ - ]  x11-common
root@goorm:~/.vnc# service apache2 restart
 * Restarting Apache httpd web server apache2
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.17.0.3. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
   ...done.
root@goorm:~/.vnc#

Install VNC xfce desktop

Run following commands from terminal then you will have nice xfce deskotp through VNC protocol to use. Firefox will be installed as your browser.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install vnc4server -y
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies -y
sudo apt install firefox -y
vncpasswd
sudo vncserver -geometry 1366x768

To run the VNC: sudo vncserver -geometry 1920x1080
Now, go to the container settings and do a port forwarding rule with the port: 5901

You do need a couple of extra steps to make it working:

• From container setting page, enable VNC port：5901
• Copy remote connection link to VNC for connection
• Download VNC client from https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/
• Don't disconnect your SSH connection, else your desktop will not work. You will have to delete to re-deploy it again.

Note: Firefox in the following screenshot will cause your account blocked based on goorm's policy for the programs causing high computing resources.

Troubleshooting

If you only got a grey desktop after logged in and could not see anything else, you might need to change xstartup file a bit then  restart the vnc server to fix this issue.. 

Here are the steps:

1. Check which session your VNC server is running on.

In our case, it is running on :2 session, and port is 5902. You also can check logs at /root/.vnc/ folder to see the session related log messages.

root@goorm:~/.vnc# netstat -na
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6002            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45786        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45782        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45780        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45784        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45756        ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::66                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::5902                 :::*                    LISTEN
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     7850922  @/tmp/dbus-yRryDTk3eu

2. Modify /root/.vnc/xstartup file

root@goorm:~/.vnc# pwd
/root/.vnc
root@goorm:~/.vnc# ls
goorm:1.log  goorm:1.pid  goorm:2.log  goorm:2.pid  goorm:3.log  goorm:3.pid  passwd  xstartup
root@goorm:~/.vnc# cat xstartup
#!/bin/sh

DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce
export DESKTOP_SESSION
startxfce4
vncserver-virtual -kill $DISPLAY

root@goorm:~/.vnc#

3. Kill VNC Server session 2

root@goorm:~/.vnc# vncserver -kill :2
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Killing Xvnc4 process ID 439
root@goorm:~/.vnc#

4. Restart VNC Server 

root@goorm:~/.vnc# netstat -na
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45786        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45782        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45780        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45784        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.17.0.3:22           172.17.0.1:45756        ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::66                   :::*                    LISTEN
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path
root@goorm:~/.vnc# sudo vncserver -geometry 1366x768
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Warning: goorm:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X1-lock
Remove this file if there is no X server goorm:1

New 'goorm:2 (root)' desktop is goorm:2

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/goorm:2.log

root@goorm:~/.vnc#

Account Blocked

Goorm has tight policy to block account if there is policy violation. If you got following notice when you trying to log in, it is becasue of some programs installed in the container violating their policy. 

Note : https://help.goorm.io/en/goormide/18.faq/general/why-blocked 

If the following program is detected to run, you will be blocked about using goormIDE.

Program type	Reason
DDoS tool	Used in malicious acts
DNS server	Used in malicious acts
Exploit	Used in malicious acts
Malicious mail sender	Used in malicious acts
Miner	Affects service operations adversely due to high computing resources
Scanner	Used in malicious acts
Proxy server	Affects service operations adversely due to high computing resources
Messenger	High compute and network resource consumption
File Uploader & Downloader	Affects service operations adversely due to high computing resources
Browser	Affects service operations adversely due to high computing resources
Cryptocurrency trading bot	Affects service operations adversely due to high computing resources

In my this case, firefox is belonging to Browser type program, so it has been blocked. Fortunately, goorm allows you to request unblock. 

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