Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

Installing Kali Linux on Docker

I think a little introduction about Docker is justified here. Docker is a new open source container technology, released in March 2013 that automates the deployment of applications inside self-sufficient software containers. Docker (built on top of Linux containers) provides a much simpler way of managing multiple containers on a single machine. Think of it as a virtual machine but it is more lightweight and efficient.

The beauty of this is that you can install Kali Linux on almost any system, which can run Docker. Let's say, for example, you want to run Kali on Digital Ocean droplet but it does not let you spin-off a Kali Linux directly like it does for Ubuntu. But now, you can simply spin-off Ubuntu or centos on ...