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+# ![An icon representing the Crucible application suite icon](../assets/img/home/cruciblelogo.svg "Crucible Application Suite Icon"){: style="height:75px;width:75px"} Introducing Crucible
+
+**Crucible** is an open-source application framework for operating a cyber range. Crucible aims to be both simple and powerful, highly extensible, and cost effective.
+Since 2018, Crucible has effectively enabled large-scale Department of Defense (DoD) cyber exercises to increase operator performance. Crucible is now available to the public under open-source licensing.
+
+### Key Features
+* Open-source cyber-range application framework
+* Modular design with extensive application programming interfaces
+* Customizable, immersive, browser-based user interface 
+* “Infrastructure as code” approach to topology building—enabling scalability, iteration, and reuse
+* Flexible integration of powerful, third-party, open-source tools 
+* Scenario-based exercising 
+* Efficiency through automation
+* Interoperability through open standards
+
+### Addressing Persistent Challenges
+Cyber range administrators confront persistent challenges:
+* manual configurations leads to high-labor costs and excessive human error—with limited scalability and automation
+* proprietary range software leads to vendor lock-in and increasing costs
+CMU SEI developed Crucible in response to a decade of experiencing these frictions.
+
+### Automating Cyber Experimentation and Exercise
+Crucible automates creation of virtual cyber environments featuring modeled topologies, simulated user activity, and scripted scenario events. These environments power individual labs, team-based exercises, and operational experimentation. These simulations can be fully automated or facilitated. Crucible content developers create new templates by specifying a topology, scenario, assessments, and user interfaces. Participants are challenged to perform mission-essential tasks and individual qualification requirements. Each Crucible application is built using the open-source Angular and .NET Core software frameworks.
+
+## Designing User Interfaces
+![Player Logo](../assets/img/crucible-icon-player.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}
+Crucible’s **Player** application is the user’s window into the virtual environment. Player enables 
+assignment of team membership as well as customization of a responsive, browser-based user-interfaces using various integrated applications. A Crucible system administrator can shape how scenario information, assessments, and virtual environments are presented through the use of integrated applications.
+
+### Open-Source Integrations:
+* **osTicket**, a support ticket system, manages cyber range service requests.
+* **Mattermost**, a chat service for real-time communications. 
+* **Rocketchat**, a chat service for real-time communications.
+* **Roundcube**, an email service, provides web-based email.
+
+## Coding a Topology
+![Caster Logo](../assets/img/crucible-icon-caster.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}
+Crucible’s **Caster** application enables the “coded” design and deployment of a cyber topology. Using Caster Designs, a novice content developer can avoid scripting OpenTofu code by simply defining variables within pre-configured OpenTofu modules. Caster supports the design and deployment of virtual environments to three types of hypervisors:
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+* VMware vSphere ESXi
+* Microsoft Azure HyperV (public-cloud)
+* Proxmox Virtual Environment KVM (open source)
+
+### Open-Source Integrations:
+* **OpenTofu**, an “infrastructure-as-code” tool, enables scripted deployment of cyber infrastructure. 
+* **GitLab**, a version control system and code-repository, is used to store OpenTofu modules.
+
+## Crafting a Scenario
+![Blueprint Logo](../assets/img/blueprint-logo.png)
+Crucible’s **Blueprint** application enables the collaborative creation and visualization of a master scenario event list (MSEL) for an exercise. Scenario events are mapped to specific simulation objectives. 
+
+![Steamfitter Logo](../assets/img/crucible-icon-steamfitter.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}Crucible’s **Steamfitter** application enables the organization and execution of scenario tasks on virtual machines.
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+### Open-Source Integrations:
+* **StackStorm**, an event-driven automation platform, scripts scenario events and senses the virtual environment.
+* **Ansible**, a software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment tool, enables post-deployment provisioning of services to infrastructure.
+
+## Animating Activity
+![GHOSTS Logo](../assets/img/ghosts_new.png){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}Crucible’s **GHOSTS** Non-Player Character (NPC) automation and orchestration framework deploys and shapes the activities of NPCs using Generative AI models.
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+Open-Source Integrations:
+* **Ollama**, a platform designed to run llama 2, mistral, and other open source large language models locally on your machine.
+
+## Evaluating Threats
+![CITE Logo](../assets/img/cite-logo.png)Crucible’s **Collaborative Incident Threat Evaluator (CITE)** application enables participants from different organizations to evaluate, score, and comment on cyber incidents. CITE also provides a situational awareness dashboard that allows teams to track their internal actions and roles.
+
+## Displaying Incident Information
+![Gallery Logo](../assets/img/gallery-logo.png)Crucible’s **Gallery** application enables 
+participants to review cyber incident information based on source type (intelligence, reporting, orders, news, social media, telephone, email) categorized by critical infrastructure sector 
+or any other organization.
+
+## Assessing Performance
+![GHOSTS Logo](../assets/img/crucible-icon-seer.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"} "SEER Application Icon")
+Crucible’s **SEER** application enables assessment of team performance. Assessment reports map training objectives to scenario events to performance assessments.
+
+### Open-Source Integrations:
+* **Moodle/H5P**, an interactive learning management system, eases the embedding of interactive quiz content. Assessments and other user-experience data can be recorded to a learning record store using the Experience API (xAPI).
+* **TheHIVE**, a scalable security incident response platform, is tightly integrated with the malware information sharing platform (MISP).
+
+## Launching a Simulation
+![Alloy Logo](../assets/img/crucible-icon-alloy.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}Crucible’s **Alloy** application enables users to launch an on-demand event or join an instance of an already-running simulation. Following the event, reports can provide a summary of knowledge and performance assessments.
+
+## Operational Deployment
+Crucible applications implement the OpenID Connect authentication protocol and are integrated with **Keycloak**, an open-source identity authentication service.
+Crucible applications are deployed as **Docker** containers, which employ operating system level virtualization to isolate containers from each other. Container deployment, scaling, and management services are obtained using Kubernetes, a popular container-orchestration system. **Kubernetes** workflow and cluster management are performed using **Argo**, a popular open-source GitOps toolset.
+A pre-configured Crucible Appliance virtual machine is available for download.
+Beyond government-owned instances, the SEI owns and operates on-premises and cloud-based instances of Crucible:
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+![Fortress Logo](../assets/img/fortress-app.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}
+**Fortress** [fortress.sei.cmu.edu](https://fortress.sei.cmu.edu)
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+![Gauntlet Logo](../assets/img/gauntlet-app.svg){: style="height:75px;width:75px"}
+**Gauntlet** [gauntlet.sei.cmu.edu](https://gauntlet.sei.cmu.edu) 
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-                    Crucible delivers cost-effective, scalable, and dynamic virtual environments that feature a modeled topology, simulated user activity, 
-                    and scenario events to improve performance of mission-essential tasks or individual qualification requirements. 
+                    Crucible is an open-source application framework for operating a cyber range. Crucible aims to be both simple and powerful, highly extensible, and cost effective. Since 2018, Crucible has effectively enabled large-scale Department of Defense (DoD) cyber exercises to increase operator performance. Crucible is now available to the public under open-source licensing.
 
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-                    &#9679 <strong>
-                    Open-source cyber simulation framework
+                <strong>
+                    Key Features:
                 </strong> <br>
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+                    &#9679
+                    Open-source cyber simulation framework
+                 <br>
+                    &#9679
                     Modular design featuring extensive APIs
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+                <br>
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                     Customizable, immersive, browser-based user interface
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+                <br>
+                    &#9679
                     “Infrastructure as code” approach to topology
                     building
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+                <br>
+                    &#9679
                     Flexible integration of powerful, third-party
                     open-source tools
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-                    &#9679 <strong>
+                <br>
+                    &#9679
                     Scenario-based simulation and assessment
-                </strong> <br>
-                    &#9679 <strong>
+                <br>
+                    &#9679
                     Support for multiple on-prem and cloud virtualization platforms
-                </strong> <br>
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+                <br>
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                     Efficiency through automation
-                </strong> <br>
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                     Interoperability through open standards
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+        <h1 id="">Automating Cyber Experimentation and Exercise</h1><br>
+        <p>
+            Cyber range administrators confront persistent challenges:<br><br>
+
+            Manual configurations leads to high-labor costs and 
+            excessive human error—with limited scalability and automation<br>
+            Proprietary range software leads to vendor lock-in and increasing costs
+            CMU SEI developed Crucible in response to a decade of experiencing these frictions.<br>
+
+            Each application is designed around a robust API that encourages interoperability with other Crucible Framework applications
+            as well as powerful third-party tools.
+
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+        <h1 id="">Addressing Persistent Challenges</h1><br>
+                <p>
+                    Crucible automates creation of virtual cyber environments featuring modeled topologies, simulated user activity, 
+                    and scripted scenario events. These environments power individual labs, team-based exercises, and operational experimentation. 
+                    These simulations can be fully automated or facilitated. Crucible content developers create new templates by specifying a topology, 
+                    scenario, assessments, and user interfaces. Participants are challenged to perform mission-essential tasks and individual qualification requirements. 
+                    Each Crucible application is built using the open-source Angular and .NET Core software frameworks.
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-                    The Crucible Framework applications work together to provide simulation developers with the tools they need
-                    to develop high quality cyber security training events<br><br>
+                    Cyber range administrators confront persistent challenges:<br><br>
+                    
+                    &#9679 Manual configurations leads to high-labor costs and 
+                    excessive human error—with limited scalability and automation<br>
+                    &#9679 Proprietary range software leads to vendor lock-in and increasing costs<br><br>
+                    CMU SEI developed Crucible in response to a decade of experiencing these frictions.<br><br>
                     
                     Each application is designed around a robust API that encourages interoperability with other Crucible Framework applications
                     as well as powerful third-party tools.<br>
 
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