Architecture
Learn how we design the plugin.
Category: Explanations
Challenge
Learn how we design the dynamic_iac challenge.
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Design
Understand the CTFd integration of chall-manager.
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Flag
Learn how we use flag variation to prevent shareflag.
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Genericity
What is the layer of genericity ?
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Source
Learn how the Source abstraction is implemented in the plugin.
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Architecture
All architecture documents, from the API to the Kubernetes deployment.
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Mana
Discover how we designed mana to prevent infrastructure overload.
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High Availability
How we balanced Availability and Consistency for acceptable performances.
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Testing
Learn how we test the plugin.
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Hot Update
How do we handle the update of an infrastructure once it runs ?
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Security
Explanations on the Security problems that could arise from a chall-manager deployment.
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Security
Learn how we designed security in a “RCE-as-a-Service” system, and how we used its features for security purposes.
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Expiration
Find how we handle fairness in the use of infrastructure resources with expirations.
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Software Development Kit
Learn how we designed a SDK to ease the use of chall-manager for non-DevOps people.
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Testing
Building something cool is a thing, assuring its quality is another. Learn how we dealt with this specific service Integration, Verification and Validation, especially through Romeo.
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Software Development Kit
Sometimes, you don’t need big things. The SDK makes sure you don’t need to be a DevOps.
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Update in production
How to update a challenge scenario once it is in production (instances are deployed) ?