Welcome!

Welcome! If you're here, you're a VERY proud user of the Dark Snow Lab environment!

Here you can find information about the basics of the environment, some basic tips, configs and potentially starter guides. This will improve over time, so check back and if you want to see something added feel free to contact your teacher in charge and he will pass that feedback onto me!

Let's start with the simple things:

  • URL: https://lab.dsnw.dev
  • Any floating IPs/public IPs are only accessible via VPN.
    • If something doesn't appear to be working (like ping or SSH) double check that your VPN is active
    • If the VPN appears to be working, double check your security group rules
  • Networks in Openstack by default are private and are only accessible from within the network
    • Meaning any basic setup of Openstack intended for external communication needs to have a Network, Subnet and Router that is both connected to the subnet and has an external IP added.
  • If you are using a company issued device or a device with restricted permissions, make sure you have proper exceptions or admin rights to install additional software (mainly just the VPN to access VMs)
    • If your IT staff needs information what IPs are sent over VPN, we're doing a split tunnel only 100.65.0.0/16 and 198.18.0.0/16 ranges.

If there are any questions that are not answered in these Wiki pages, your first point of contact is your teacher.

Any concerns with the platform itself he will bring up with us, to avoid any massive floods of support requests.

Before diving in, make sure you have the credentials to access the lab environment!

If you're ready, let's kick off -> VPN setup
If you need to get your RC file for API/Terraform -> Openstack RC File
If you are trying to request SSL certificates for the domain you've setup in Openstack -> DNS Based SSL certificates
If you need a short starter to Terraform with Openstack -> Terraform w/ Openstack