Previously, any VM I would build would have a long shell script to install things. It was simple, but definitely annoying to debug and was hard if installation instructions changed.
Ansible Playbooks, while maybe a bit overkill for a single host, is, in many ways, much easier to maintain and also incrementally makes changes. (this was also mostly an opportunity for me to learn how to use ansible)
I have cut a few things out from the actual playbook I maintain because I don't want to accidentally give away stuff I don't mean to, but the playbook is mostly the same. This is designed to run on Kali Linux so don't expect it to work on any old host.
pip3 install ansible
export PATH=$PATH:/home/kali/.local/bin
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
sudo whoami
ansible-playbook main.yml
Warning
As of writing (8-20-23), the vscode galaxy is a bit buggy, but I don't want to write my own role. This pull request covers the appropriate changes that need to be made, and just reboot after installing for it to work properly.
- Although I like Sliver, I kept out of the ansible build because I'd rather run that outside of the context of the playbook
- Don't have a great way to transfer files from one machine to another, will set that up some other time
- Need to change Kali password, that is something for you to do outside of the playbook
- It doesn't actually install pwndbg, mainly because I always forget if you're supposed to run
setup.shas a user or root, and I didn't feel like testing it