[5 Mins Docker] Create Your Own Looking-Glass Website Deploying on Northflank Free Tier – 51 Security

Lets start with Docker Playground to test it out

docker run -d --name looking-glass --restart always --network host wikihostinc/looking-glass-server

3 Click port 80 to open Looking-glass server page in a new tab

Change configuration

# you need pass -e KEY=VALUE to docker command
# you can find the KEY below the [Image Environment Variables]
# for example, change the listen port to 8080
docker run -d \
    --name looking-glass \
    -e HTTP_PORT=8080 \
    --restart always \
    --network host \
    wikihostinc/looking-glass-server

1 Browser to open http://<Public IP>:Port

2 Click “Begin test” button to start the speed test.

3 Click iPerf3 to start iperf3 server for speed test. 

4 Click Speedtest.net to test speed

There are some Chinese character in there. But you should be able to use Google Translate to understand them. Again, this speed is from the Looking-Glass server to Speedtest.net server. 

4 Click Shell to run other commands such as ping/mtr/traceroute/nexttrace/speedtest:

ALS > help
Error: unknown command "help" for ""
Run ' --help' for usage.

ALS > --hlp
Error: unknown flag: --hlp
Usage:
   [command]

Available Commands:
  mtr         
  nexttrace   
  ping        
  speedtest   
  traceroute  

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for this command

Use " [command] --help" for more information about a command.

ALS > 

NPM:

Simple and easy setup for using your own subdomain with NPM. 

Free Developer Sandbox provides test drive the Northflank experience with access to all our platform essentials. (https://northflank.com/pricing)

For the compute resources, “Deploy up to $20/mo worth of free resources on Northflank’s managed cloud.

Use up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB of memory on your free BYOC cluster.”

https://app.northflank.com/

1 Register an account and log into Northflank.com:

2 Create a free project

3 Add a new service using external image:

4 Check deployed service:

5 Add own domain for the project

add subdomain:

Custom domain

The demo site in Northflank: https://glass.51sec.eu.org/ is hosted on Northflank’s free tier servers. 

Another demo site in OCP is : https://looking-glass.51sec.eu.org/

sudo bash -c 'echo "SystemMaxUse=100M" >> /etc/systemd/journald.conf'
sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald

sudo sh -c 'truncate -s 0 /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log'

cat > /etc/docker/daemon.json << EOF
{
    "log-driver": "json-file",
    "log-opts": {
        "max-size": "20m",
        "max-file": "3"
    },
    "ipv6": true,
    "fixed-cidr-v6": "fd00:dead:beef:c0::/80",
    "eixperimental":true,
    "ip6tables":true
}
EOF

cat <<EOF > /etc/docker/daemon.json
{
  "live-restore": true,
  "storage-driver": "overlay2",
  "log-opts": {
    "max-size": "10m"
  }
}
EOF

systemctl restart docker

cat /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
    rotate 4
    weekly
    missingok
    notifempty
    compress
    delaycompress
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
    endscript
}

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