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Version: v1.2

Manual installation

Manually install the Debian package#

Fetch your package from the public repository, and install it manually :

sudo dpkg -i ./crowdsec_1.1.1_amd64.deb

Install from the release tarball#

Fetch CrowdSec latest version here.

tar xvzf crowdsec-release.tgzcd crowdsec-v*sudo ./wizard.sh -i

A wizard is provided to help you deploy CrowdSec and cscli.

Using the Wizard#

Interactive mode#

sudo ./wizard.sh -i

The wizard is going to guide you through the following steps :

  • detect services that are present on your machine
  • detect selected services logs
  • suggest collections (parsers and scenarios) to deploy
  • deploy & configure CrowdSec in order to watch selected logs for selected scenarios

The process should take less than a minute, please report if there are any issues.

You are then ready to take a tour of your freshly deployed CrowdSec !

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Keep in mind that CrowdSec is only in charge of the "detection", and won't block anything on its own. You need to deploy a bouncer to "apply" decisions.

Binary installation#

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sudo ./wizard.sh --bininstall

This will only deploy the binaries, and some extra installation steps need to be completed for the software to be functional :

  • sudo cscli hub update : update the hub index
  • sudo cscli machines add -a : register crowdsec to the local API
  • sudo cscli capi register : register to the central API
  • sudo cscli collections install crowdsecurity/linux : install essential configs (syslog parser, geoip enrichment, date parsers)
  • configure your datasources

You can now start & enable the crowdsec service :

  • sudo systemctl start crowdsec
  • sudo systemctl enable crowdsec

Unattended mode#

If your setup is standard and you've walked through the default installation without issues, you can win some time in case you need to perform a new install : sudo ./wizard.sh --unattended

This mode will emulate the interactive mode of the wizard where you answer yes to everything and stick with the default options.

Building docker image#

Crowdsec provides a docker image and can simply built like this :

git clone https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec.git && cd crowdsecdocker build -t crowdsec .