CSCFT Cost Calculator

Google Cloud infrastructure cost estimator for Capture The Flag competitions.

Multi-Cluster GKE Per-Team Isolation Real-Time Analysis

Competition Setup

Number of Teams200

Container Challenges15

Container Timeout30 min

Peak Concurrency Rate25%

Average Activity Rate60%

Pod Resources

CPU Request0.10 vCPU

Memory Request0.13 GiB

CPU Limit0.3 vCPU

Memory Limit0.25 GiB

Timeline & Options

Pre-testing Days10

Pre-testing Hours/Day4 h

Competition Hours48 h

Post-competition Days4

Use Spot VMs

Spot VM Discount70%

Cloud Region

Challenge Cluster Instances

Instance Type

vCPUs

Memory

64 GB

Family

$/hour

$0.536

Challenge Cluster Config

Minimum Nodes1

Maximum Nodes50

Buffer Percentage15%

Pre-warmed Nodes2

Zone Configuration

Platform Cluster Instances

Instance Type

vCPUs

Memory

16 GB

Family

$/hour

$0.134

Platform Cluster Config

Minimum Nodes2

Maximum Nodes3

Buffer Percentage0%

Pre-warmed Nodes0

Zone Configuration

Load Balancer Configuration

Load Balancer Type

HAProxy Instance Type

HAProxy Instances2

Use Managed Load Balancer

Networking & Security

Firewall Rules50

Inter-Zone Traffic100 GB

Network Policies

Service Mesh

Cloud NAT Gateway

Total Infrastructure Cost

$0.00/ team|$0.00/ hour

Cost Breakdown

Challenge Cluster

0.0%$0

Platform Cluster

0.0%$0

Load Balancer

0.0%$0

Networking

0.0%$0

Monitoring

0.0%$0

Storage

0.0%$0

Management

0.0%$0