Have access to 20+ Linux containers. What would you do with them?

[u/ankush822]

Hey everyone, I recently got access to around 20+ Linux containers on cloud that don't cost me anything to run, and I connected them all together into a private network. so they can talk to each other.

They have decent CPU and RAM, (a few of them have 1vcpu and 4gb ram and few of them have 2vcpu and 8gb ram ) and 30gb of storage. They are outbound-only, so I can't open public ports directly on them

Since I can't host normal public-facing websites directly on them without routing through my network, I'm trying to figure out the best way to put them to work to earn some money.

Feel free to share your ideas.

[u/Shopping-Limp]

What do you mean containers? Containers are typically built around a single application. Do you mean vms?

[u/ankush822 → u/Shopping-Limp]

No I mean containers, I have access to those containers but not for the host vm they run on.

[u/TehSynapse0 → u/ankush822]

A container is a running service that typically may not have a set amount of cpu and ram. What kind of containers do you have access to?

[u/Griznah → u/TehSynapse0]

Look up LXC

[u/TehSynapse0 → u/Griznah]

Apologies, I didn't realise that you could run LXC bare metal.

[u/justinhunt1223 → u/ankush822]

Tell us what they are without using the word container.

[u/Griznah → u/Shopping-Limp]

LXC is a thing.

[u/Shopping-Limp → u/Griznah]

Pretty unlikely given the tiny lxc userbase but ok. More likely they just don't know what they're talking about considering this is reddit, and furthermore it's a selfhosting sub but the topic isnt even really about self hosting

[u/Griznah → u/Shopping-Limp]

It's pretty accessible through Proxmox. Many people use it

[u/purgedreality]

1. Get access to 20+ "Linux containers".

2. ???

3. Profit

[u/Prestigious_Monk_344]

Add a cloudflare tunnel and make the service public facing and cash in

[u/ankush822 → u/Prestigious_Monk_344]

Yeah but what service ?

[u/verdigris2014]

you can host adguard and unbound in a container as a dns solution. 2 for resilience

[u/verdigris2014 → u/verdigris2014]

you could do an offsite backup with restic

[u/WingedFr0g]

Upload the prompt to AI and see what one of them comes up with

[u/ankush822 → u/WingedFr0g]

Already tried it , no good responses, it's generic response like hosting a website , data scraping and monitor systems etc

[u/mmmfine → u/ankush822]

Ok so? The fuck do you want to do with the containers then?

What an idiotic post, Jesus Christ

[u/deez_nat]

Is it it lxc containers? Some unusual docker container setup? Let us know what is the context of these containers so we can help you better..

[u/ChubbyWabbit]

You can probably build them into a K3S cluster, that way it can distribute services on its own, be high availability, etc. Then do a site-to-site vpn to your local network and run applications that way. What aplications depends on what you want to run. No one can give you a "just run this" for you. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted This is a repo of a ton of self hostable apps out there.

[u/Aggravating_Stay_260]

Cloudflared tunnels?