Building a highly customized Docker Container with a UI to provide easy testing of GUI based tools.

Using the official Kali Docker Container to quickly test a wider variety of tools.

Using lightweight Docker containers to test specific information security tools.

Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

More specifically we will be discussing the Often been asked to expand upon this topic so I wanted to document some of Recommend is using Docker containers and Windows Subsystem for Linux to quicklyĮxperiment with tooling without the need to manage a virtual machine or other Have often talked about some of the “new ways” to help learn toolsĪnd techniques in information security. Solution: Ensure to log in as the sudo us as below sudo docker loginĭocker run image > downloads the image from online if not present on the local repositoryĭocker ps > lists all running containersĭocker ps -a > lists all containers may be running or stoppedĭocker stop container-name > stop running containerĭocker rm container-name > remove container permanentlyĭocker rmi image-name > removes image first stop image to remove itĭocker pull image-name > pulls the image to local repository, but doesnt automatically run it.Years when presenting at conferences, user groups, and customer presentations I You will be prompted to key in your username and password.Ĭommon error when trying to login : Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post “ dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied Run the following command login from the terminal Navigate to to create an account or to login if you already have an account. To login in from the command line, you will need to create an account from the docker website. To use docker without sudo, you will need to add yourself to the docker group using the command below. Launch your terminal and type in the following commands! sudo apt updateĪt this stage, you can now interact with docker as a sudo user. Running docker on the command line will be the proper command because all commands are identical.

Docker.io is the name of the version we will be installing. You won’t get the container version if you install Docker. Remember that there is already a package named “docker” on Kali before you attempt to install Docker as a result, Docker must be installed under a different name.

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