Pathwar ☠️

Mentoring Hook's First Batch of Startups during a Diner (42entrepreneurs)

Hook is the VC of 42entrepreneurs.

We talked about a lot of topics, mainly focused on previous experiences.

I met 2 startups:

• Myth (e-sport)
• Hatack (cybersec courses)

Dockerself - runtime self-dockerizer

Presentation

dockerself is a program that creates a new Docker container, injects itself, and finally runs itself from within Docker.

For the record, I was working on pathwar (a security learning platform) and was trying to design the less-constraining way of creating new levels.

My current best idea is to inject a custom entrypoint when the platform starts a new container, instead of requiring the level developers to adapt their Dockerfile.

Additionally, to the simplicity that is added for a level developer, this pattern also has the advantage of always putting the latest version of the entrypoint, even if the image was not updated for a very long time.

Additional resources

• The project: https://github.com/moul/dockerself
• Pathwar sources: https://github.com/pathwar/pathwar

Pathwar: unix levels

First version of the unix levels on Pathwar.

Until today, Pathwar was only about web-based level; But now, it’s also possible to have non-web levels thanks to ssh2docker.

Source code: https://github.com/pathwar/level-unix1

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