Setup Student Virtual Machine

Setting up and accessing the student virtual machine

Setup Files

This document describes how to use the files inside the setup-files folder to create a local student machine that can be used to then do the rest of the training.

It is really important to follow the instructions in this document before starting with the actual training materiel as this document used to setup your labs and access.

Initial setup

Setup a Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop virtual machine with a Desktop (GUI) environment. We prefer the machine to be deployed as a Virtualbox virtual machine, but you can use any other virtualisation software.

The username on the student virtual machine has to be student.

  • Create a new user with the name student

  • Add the student user to the sudoers group using sudo usermod -aG sudo student

  • Login as the student user

  • Add the /home/student/.local/bin folder to $PATH

Software needed on the virtual machine

Install the following software on the student virtual machine

  1. python3 pip (sudo apt install python3-pip)

  2. Terraform (sudo apt install unzip;wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.3/terraform_0.11.3_linux_amd64.zip;unzip terraform_0.11.3_linux_amd64.zip;sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/)

  3. aws-cli (pip3 install --upgrade --user awscli)

  4. ansible (sudo apt install ansible)

  5. codenamize (pip3 install codenamize --user)

  6. boto3 (python package)

  7. Azure cli (curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash)

  8. cli53 - get the binary release from https://github.com/barnybug/cli53/releases

  9. Mousepad/Leafpad

  10. Burpsuite

  11. Firefox

  12. Virtualbox guest additions

Steps to setup the student virtual machine

Step 1 - Adding scripts in /usr/bin

  1. Copy all files from the bin folder to /usr/bin/

  2. Make them executable using chmod +x filename

Step 2 - Adding terraform scripts in home directory

  1. Create a hidden folder called terraform in the student user's home directory using mkdir terraform

  2. Verify if the folder is created using ls -ltra /home/student/terraform

  3. Recursively copy files from inside the terraform folder into the /home/student/terraform folder. You can use cp -r setup-files/terraform/* /home/student/terraform/ to do this.

  4. Verify if the files have been copied using ls -ltra /home/student/terraform/

The VM is now ready for the training

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