Usage

Installation

Before provisioning beast on your host, make sure you have the following dependencies installed.

You can either build beast from source or download a latest realease binary from Github Relaeases.

$ export GO111MODULES=on

$ git clone [email protected]:sdslabs/beastv4.git

$ cd beastv4 && make build
>>> Building Beast

This should build beast from source in $GOPATH/bin/beast, you can then use this binary to run beast API server. The -n flag tells beast to not use the authorization middleware.

$ beast run -v -n

To interact with beast API server you can look at the swagger API documentation hosted on beast itself. Navigate to http://localhost:5005/api/docs/index.html to get a detail of available endpoints.

To be able to interact with the REST API interface you should be authorized by beast, go to Authentication Section to know about the flow of authentication.

Examples

Some examples of API action triggers are given below

# Reloading a configuration change in beast global config
$ curl -X PATCH localhost:5005/api/config/reload
{"message":"CONFIG RELOAD SUCCESSFUL"}

# Deploying a challenge named my-challenge using API.
$  curl -X POST --data "action=deploy&name=my-challenge" localhost:5005/api/manage/challenge/
{"message":"Deploy for challenge simple-web has been triggered, check stats"}

# Purging the deployed challenge completely.
$ curl -X POST --data "action=purge&name=my-challenge" localhost:5005/api/manage/challenge/
{"message":"Your action purge on challenge simple-web was successful"}

For more examples and available API routes go to Swagger API documentation.

Note