Behind the competition
Infrastructure
The platform behind the competition. Built and hosted by students.
For one Friday the 13th, a self-hosted stack supported 20 teams and their challenge environments. CTFd provided the competition interface. Kubernetes hosted containerized services and challenges.
The self-hosted stack
CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE2 × Fujitsu
Physical servers
Proxmox
Virtualization layer
Kubernetes
Container orchestration
CTFd + challenges
Competition platform and challenge environments
A conceptual view of the documented stack. Exact network links, VLANs, host assignments and service placement are not preserved in the supplied repository.
CTFd
The competition platform, with a custom theme and configuration for the Friday the 13th edition.
Kubernetes
A self-hosted cluster for containerized services and individual challenge environments.
2 × Fujitsu servers
Dedicated physical hardware provided the computing foundation for the event.
Proxmox
The virtualization layer on the self-hosted infrastructure.
OPNsense
The firewall and network security component of the event infrastructure.
Juniper networking
The networking hardware used by the self-hosted platform.