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Goal

Here, we assume that you are a CTF administrator, the infrastructure is already configured and you understand the key concepts.

During your event you may need to deploy instances for users we will see several use cases. If mana is enabled, 1 coupon will be created for each user.

Deploy instances for users

There may be several reasons why administrators create instances for users. Here, we’ll imagine that the CTF hasn’t started yet, that it’s a CTF in team mode and that 10 teams are expected. For the 10 teams, we want to deploy 1 instance of the “generated-flag” challenge.

Go to CTFd Admin Panel > Plugins > chall-manager > Panel such as:

By clicking on the button, you will send several requests to CTFd. To make the user experience easier, we add a progress bar.

Once the progress bar is done (this mean instances are created on chall-manager), you can go the instances monitoring panel.

You can use this method during your event to deploy a hidden challenge (deploy instances before the challenge is release) for instance.

Deploy a global scope instance

Here, we’ll imagine that you did configure a challenge with global scope enabled. For the global challenge, you must put the pattern at 0.

Like the previous use case, you will get a progress bar while the instance are getting deployed.