Chronos Security CTF
Advanced Google Cloud Infrastructure Cost Calculator
Multi-Cluster Architecture
Individual Container Isolation
Real-time Cost Analysis
Competition Setup
Number of Teams
200
Container Challenges
15
Container Timeout
30 min
Peak Concurrency Rate
25%
Average Activity Rate
60%
Pod Resources
CPU Request
0.100 vCPU
Memory Request
0.125 GiB
CPU Limit
0.300 vCPU
Memory Limit
0.250 GiB
Timeline & Options
Pre-testing Days
10
Competition Hours
48
Post-competition Days
4
Use Spot VMs
Spot VM Discount
70%
Cloud Region
us-central1 (Iowa)
us-east1 (S. Carolina)
europe-west1 (Belgium)
europe-west4 (Netherlands)
asia-east1 (Taiwan)
Challenge Cluster Instances
Instance Type
e2-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
e2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
e2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
e2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
e2-standard-32 (32 vCPU, 128 GB)
n2-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
n2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
n2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
n2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
n2-standard-32 (32 vCPU, 128 GB)
c2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
c2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
c2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
c2-standard-30 (30 vCPU, 120 GB)
c3-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
c3-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
c3-standard-22 (22 vCPU, 88 GB)
c3-standard-44 (44 vCPU, 176 GB)
vCPUs
16
Memory
64 GB
Family
E2
Price/hour
$0.536
Challenge Cluster Config
Minimum Nodes
1
Maximum Nodes
50
Buffer Percentage
15%
Pre-warmed Nodes
2
Zone Configuration
Single Zone
Multi-Zone (HA)
Platform Cluster Instances
Instance Type
e2-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
e2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
e2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
e2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
e2-standard-32 (32 vCPU, 128 GB)
n2-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
n2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
n2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
n2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
n2-standard-32 (32 vCPU, 128 GB)
c2-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
c2-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
c2-standard-16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB)
c2-standard-30 (30 vCPU, 120 GB)
c3-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
c3-standard-8 (8 vCPU, 32 GB)
c3-standard-22 (22 vCPU, 88 GB)
c3-standard-44 (44 vCPU, 176 GB)
vCPUs
4
Memory
16 GB
Family
E2
Price/hour
$0.134
Platform Cluster Config
Minimum Nodes
2
Maximum Nodes
3
Buffer Percentage
0%
Pre-warmed Nodes
0
Zone Configuration
Single Zone
Multi-Zone (HA)
Load Balancer Configuration
Load Balancer Type
Google Cloud Load Balancer Only
HAProxy VMs Only
Hybrid (Both)
HAProxy Instance Type
e2-standard-2 ($0.067/hour)
e2-standard-4 ($0.134/hour)
HAProxy Instances
2
Use Managed Load Balancer
Networking & Security
Firewall Rules
50
Inter-Zone Traffic (GB)
100 GB
Network Policies
Service Mesh
None
Istio Service Mesh
Linkerd Service Mesh
Cloud NAT Gateway
$0
Total Infrastructure Cost
$0.00 per team
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$0.00 per hour
Challenge Cluster
$0
Worker nodes running challenge containers
NaN% of total
Platform Cluster
$0
CTFd, MySQL, Redis, Nginx infrastructure
NaN% of total
Load Balancer
$0
HAProxy VMs and managed load balancers
NaN% of total
Networking
$0
Firewall rules, NAT, egress, service mesh
NaN% of total
Monitoring
$0
Operations Suite, logging, metrics
NaN% of total
Storage
$0
Persistent disks, artifact registry
NaN% of total
Management
$0
GKE cluster management fees
NaN% of total