CTFd-chall-manager

Level Up CTFd with Infra-as-Code Challenges!

Caution

CTFd-chall-manager is currently in public beta phase.
It could be run in production, but breaking changes are subject to happen in the upcoming months until General Availability.

It has been tested under production workload during the NoBrackets 2024.

This plugin allow you to use the chall-manager, to manage scenario and permit Player's to deploy their instances.

Last version of CTFd tested on: 3.8.1.

Last version of Chall-Manager tested on: v0.6.1.

Features

Main features for Users

Booting/Destroying Instance by Source
Sharing Instance between all Sources
Restriction based on Mana
Use flag variation proposed by chall-manager

Main features for Admins

Create challenges with Scenario
Preprovisionng Instances for Source
Monitor all mana used by Sources

Trophy list

The following list contains all known events where CTFd-chall-manager has been operated in production:
Please open an issue to add your event to the list if we did not ourself.

2024/11/20 NoBracketsCTF 2024
2025/02/09 ICAISC 2025
2025/03/08 Hack'lantique 2025
2025/05/17 WhiteHats TrojanCTF 2025
2025/05/24 24h IUT 2025

How install and use

To install and use the plugin, refer to the documentation at https://ctfer.io/docs/ctfd-chall-manager.

Limitations

Need to use the core-beta or derivative theme (cf CTFd/CTFd#2630)

Glossaries

Label	Description
Sources	In CTFd "Teams" mode, the Source is Team In CTFd "Users" mode, the Source is User
Scenario	Pulumi project that define the challenge (webserver, ssh server, ...) to deploy an Instance
Instances	This is a copy of Scenario for the Source that make the request
Mana	This is the "money" to regulate the Instance's deployment

Shoutout to ctfd-whale which helped us a lot to create this plugin.

Sarsum/ctfd-chall-manager