noname1007/kali-on-macos

Run Kali Linux in Docker on Mac OS with X11 Forwarding

kali-on-macos

A cleaned-up version from my Running Kali under Docker with X11 Forwarding on Mac OS X article.

While Homebrew contains a lot of the packages I use for security testing, I wanted to see if I could replace OffSec's Kali VM for PWK with my own linux distribution running in Docker under my macbook.

Repo contents

• .env: The environment file that contains values used by our other files.
• Dockerfile: This file defines the image which includes all of the dependencies and initial configuration we want included in our base image.
• docker-compose.yml: This file performs a build of the image and creates a running container.
• Makefile: Because I'm lazy, I just want to type make and have it start and configure XQuartz (for x11 forwarding) and start my container and put me directly into a shell.

Requirements

• Install and configure XQuartz on mac OS.
• Install and configure Docker Desktop on mac OS.

Install/Setup/Run

1. Edit the .env file.
2. Copy any files/directories into the data directory that you want brought into your home folder.
3. docker-compose up -d
4. make

If you make subsequent changes to the Dockerfile, we can issue docker-compose up -d --build so that it makes use of the other cached layers, rather than doing a full rebuild with --no-cache.