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Instruqt Lab Documentation

Overview

The Sandbox tab allows you to define and manage the technical environment for your lab. Sandbox resources represent the compute, networking, and supporting infrastructure that power each lab, enabling you to create realistic, interactive environments.

From the Sandbox tab, click the + button to add a resource. The menu groups the available resource types as follows.

General

  • Container: Docker containers that provide compute for your lab.
  • Network: isolated networks for your resources.
  • Virtual Machine: full operating systems running within your sandbox.
  • Exec: commands and scripts run locally or inside a container.
  • Terraform: Terraform configurations that provision infrastructure inside the sandbox.
  • Kubernetes Cluster: a Kubernetes cluster running in the sandbox for learners to interact with.
  • Kubernetes Config: Kubernetes manifests applied to a cluster to pre-provision resources.
  • Template: a Handlebars template rendered with variables and written to a file in the sandbox.

Cloud Providers

See the Cloud Providers documentation.

  • Amazon (AWS): AWS instances, databases, and services.
  • Azure: Azure subscriptions.
  • Google: Google Cloud Platform projects and resources.

Randomizers

See the Randomizers documentation.

  • Random Creature: a friendly, URL-safe creature name for use as a resource label.
  • Random ID: a random byte sequence available as hex, decimal, and base64.
  • Random Number: a random integer within a specified range.
  • Random Password: a random password with configurable length and character classes.
  • Random UUID: a random RFC 4122 v4 UUID.

These resources work together to provide compute power, internal communication, and external access for your lab’s components. Secrets, variables, locals, and outputs are managed separately in the Dynamic Values tab, not as Sandbox resources.

For more information on specific sandbox resources, refer to their individual documentation pages.