This repo contains tools to automatically set up a practice hacking environment. It was originally designed for educational hackathons. The goal of the Midnight Net is to provide a challenge that is based as much as possible in how real systems are compromised.

First, you'll need Terraform and Ansible. Install those before proceeding. You'll also need a Python 3 runtime.

Second, create credentials in credentials/ as per the sample files. For each sample file, you will need to create a real version without the .sample suffix. For instance, you will need to create an aws-credentials file with actual, working AWS credentials.

Then, run the following sequence of commands:

cd terraform
terraform init
terraform apply
cd ../ansible
./apply.sh

Note that terraform init is only needed the first time you set up a midnight net.

Once you're done with the environment, cd into the terraform/ directory, and run terraform destroy. That will clean up all midnight resources and stop incurring AWS bills.