Tutorial by Thomas d’Otreppe about installing custom image of Kali Linux on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is a cloud provider similar to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and many others. They offer instances, called “droplets”, with different Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. Similar to AWS, DigitalOcean has datacenters around the world and sometimes multiple datacenters in each country.
However, one feature in particular sets DigitalOcean apart them from their competitors. A little while ago, they added support for custom images, which allows users to import virtual machine disks and use them as droplets. This is perfect for us as we can use our own version of Kali Linux in their cloud.
Author will guide you through the build of a lightweight Kali installation with the bare minimum to get it working. You will get detailed instructions on:
- How to generate an ISO
- How to create the Virtual Machine
- Update the System
- Uploading of custom image
- Starting a Droplet
Straight to the point no fuss tutorial. Building the ISO will require around 5 GB of hard drive space so make sure you have enough. Good read!
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