Prerequisites
- A Selfmade Ninja Lab account (If you don’t have an account, create one here).
- A working installation of WireGuard for Windows.
Steps to Connect to Selfmade Ninja Labs
- Log in to your Git Selfmade Ninja account (click here) using your credentials.
- Click on your profile and select the Preferences tab.
- Under Preferences, choose SSH Keys, then click Add new key.
Connect to Selfmade Ninja Labs
- Login to your GitLab account using your credentials here.
- Select your profile, then click on ‘Preferences’ tab
- Select ‘SSH Keys’ from the list of options, then select ‘Add new key’.
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Open your command prompt, type the following command:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C “your-key-name”
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Enter a passphrase for your key, if needed.
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Now, in the command prompt, type
type your_key_location
- Copy your Public key and paste it in the ’Key’ field.
- Click ‘Add key’, and your Key is added.
- Under ‘Connectivity’ tab, Click ‘My Devices’.
- Click ‘Add Device’ option.
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Now, to configure your PC to WireGuard, Install WireGuard for windows by clicking here
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Now, Open WireGuard on your windows. Under the ‘+’ symbol, Click ‘Add an empty tunnel’.
- Copy the public key.
- Paste it in the ‘Wireguard Public Key’ field, and click ‘Verify and add’ option
- Under your device, click ‘Show Configuration’.
- Copy from the ‘Address’ field to the end of the configuration as shown below.
- Paste it in the WireGuard Configuration as shown below. Add a name to the interface in the ‘Name’ field, and hit ‘Save’.
- Now click ‘Activate’ to connect to the WireGuard Interface.
- Open your Command Prompt, type
'ping 172.30.0.0'to check whether the WireGuard connection is working or not. Now you have configured your PC to WireGuard.
- Now, from your ‘Labs’ page, click ‘deploy’
- Click ‘Confirm deploy’
- After the server is deployed, you can copy the SSH command from the field below and run it in the terminal.
- If you want to connect it via VS Code, make sure Remote-SSH extension is installed (If you don’t have VS Code Installed, Click here to download.)
- Click SSH icon from bottom-left of VS Code, Click ‘Connect to Host’, and click ‘Add new SSH host’
- Then paste the SSH command, and hit enter. then click ‘Connect’ below.
- Your Labs is now connected via VS Code. To open the terminal within the code server environment, simply press Ctrl and the backtick (`) button simultaneously. This action will grant you direct access to the terminal.
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