I use this solution to keep my identity private and my workstation safe from malware. It is incredibly more powerful than Incognito Mode, VM, and VPN:

• The session is pristine with no browser history or cookies from my host computer or previous sessions.
• Any website I visit only runs in the context of this session. None of the website’s code runs on my personal computer — only the remote browser in the disposable container.
• The session is running the full edition of Chrome/Brave/Firefox or even Tor so I can add my favorite extensions and I can be confident most websites will work.
• Websites will see the IP of my Linode server and not my home or work IP.
• At any time I can destroy this session and start a fresh one over again.

Researchers, hackers, Darkweb tourists.. This solution maybe work for you!

The Container Streaming Platform® Streaming containerized apps and desktops to end-users. The Workspaces platform provides enterprise-class orchestration, data loss prevention, and web streaming technology to enable the delivery of containerized workloads to your browser.

• What is Kasm Workspaces
• Kasm Cloud Personal

This instruction requires knowledge of networking essentials, Linux, and Terraform. You also have to turn it off after using and re-config when turn-on (But don't worry, only three commands)

| Solution                              | Resource             | Cost                    |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------| ----------------------- |
| Kasm Cloud Personal Browser           | 1 Core, 2GB RAM      | `$5/month fix.`         |
| Terraform + Linode (Self Manage)      | 2 Core, 4GB RAM      | `$0.28/hour On-demand.` |

You must have a Linode Cloud account. If you don't have an account yet, register via my referral to get a $100 credit (expires after 4 months).

Since you have a Linode account, get API Tokens to allow Terraform provision as Code:

1. To generate a new personal access token, navigate to your profile by clicking on your username and selecting API Tokens.
2. Click Create a Personal Access Token. A panel appears that allows you to give this token a label and choose the access rights you want users authenticated with the new token to have.

How to Install Terraform

🔔 In Windows, make sure that you add the path of the Terraform CLI executable to your PATH environment variable so that you can run from any directory on your laptop/computer.

Clone this repository, go to folder kasm-workspaces-single-server/ and open file main.tf to replace [YOUR TOKEN] with your Personal Access Token from Linode in the previous section:

provider "linode" {
  token = "[YOUR TOKEN]"
}

Replace [YOUR PASSWORD] with your root user password of Linode Instance, it requires passwords to meet the following criteria:

• At least 8 characters long
• Contains at least one uppercase letter
• Contains at least one lowercase letter
• Contains at least one number
• Contains at least one special character

resource "linode_instance" "kasm" {
  label = "kasm"
  type = "g6-standard-2"
  region = "us-east"
  image = "linode/ubuntu20.04"
  root_pass = "[YOUR PASSWORD]"
  backups_enabled = false
  private_ip = true
  tags = ["kasm"]
  stackscript_id = linode_stackscript.kasm-stackscript.id
}

Save the file and run these commands:

terraform init
terraform apply --auto-approve

Your output will be similar:

public_ip will be your public IP address of the Linode cloud server.

After Terraform is completed, wait 10-15 minutes for Kasm Workspaces installation finished.

Open your browser, enter https://[YOUR LINODE PUBLIC IP]

Click Advanced and Proceed to [YOUR LINODE PUBLIC IP] (unsafe) (Don't worry, this is your own cloud server). Login with admin@kasm.local:password

We will need to SSH remotely to this server to reset the Kasm Workspace password. Run this command:

ssh root@[YOUR LINODE PUBLIC IP]

Type yes and [YOUR PASSWORD] (which you provide in main.tf)

Copy and paste this command:

sudo docker exec -i kasm_db psql -U kasmapp -d kasm <<EOF
    update users set
    pw_hash = 'fe519184b60a4ef9b93664a831502578499554338fd4500926996ca78fc7f522',
    salt = '83d0947a-bf55-4bec-893b-63aed487a05e',
    secret=NULL, set_two_factor=False, locked=False,
    disabled=False, failed_pw_attempts = 0 where username ='admin@kasm.local';
\q
EOF

After runing, it will output UPDATE 1 which means you success to reset the password of Kasm Workspaces. Your admin account will be admin@kasm.local: password.

If you install manual Kasm Workspaces instead of using Terraform, your random password will be output on the terminal so you don't need to do this reset task.

Now your Kasm Workspaces is ready:

Select the tab WORKSPACES on the top bar to start using.

You can run container (workspace) from your own image by choose Add Manually and setup, or choose Add from Registry to run container from Kasm's images in DockerHub:

After installing your workspace (example: Tor), return to WORKSPACES Tab on the top bar to use:

In your terraform working directory, run this command:

terraform destroy --auto-approve

Your Linode server on the cloud will be destroyed completely!

• You can also share an account user with your friend to use your Kasm Workspaces by config in the section Users (Our capacity is quite low, so multiple users is not recommended):

• To add more types of containers (Workspace) in your Kasm Workspaces, go to the section Workspaces to Add Workspace and config the DockerHub image. (You can build your custom Docker image and use it in Kasm Workspaces).

• If you see the error when starting some container (workspace) like Terminal, it is due to your server's capacity can't handle it. You can change the capacity of the Linode server by modifying it in main.tf. This tutorial will use for browsing the web so I will not go into detail on this capacity issue.

• For more information, you can read Kasm Documentation here.