Vagrant

This project uses Vagrant to configure a reproducible development environment.

The Vagrantfile in the top level of this repository will launch a minimal two machine setup (web and shell) configured for easy local development. This will most likely be the primary setup you are interested in.

These virtual machines are automatically be provisioned using the provided ansible playbooks.

Usage

When run from the directory containing a Vagrantfile

vagrant up
- On first run this will download a base Ubuntu machine, install, and configure the picoCTF platform. This may take some time depending on your network speeds.
- On future runs, this will ensure both virtual machines are started. This should perform quickly.
- Ensures networking is properly configured and synced directories are up to date.
vagrant ssh web or vagrant ssh shell
- Will provide you a shell within the relevant virtual machine.
vagrant reload
- Restarts the virtual machines.
- Note, if you manually restart the machines with the GUI, reboot, or shutdown -r networking and synced folders may not function correctly. You want to use vagrant to preform this function.
- You can use the --provision flag to re-run all the configuration steps.
vagrant halt
- Shuts down the running virtual machines. They can be brought back up with with vagrant up

There are the most common commands you will use to interact with vagrant, for anything else please consult vagrant -h or the documentation.

Resource Considerations

One great feature of Vagrant is it allows you to make the most of your computer's resources, no matter how large or small. Since it is so easy to start and stop the virtual machines, it is recommended that when you are not using them you stop them with vagrant halt. This will prevent your CPU and Memory from being used. When you want to use it again it's just a vagrant up away.

If you want to try an alternative configuration but are concerned all the virtual machines will take up too much space, you can always completely remove them with vagrant destroy. Note if you destroy a virtual machine you will loose all competition state (e.g. users/solves).

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