Using Docker To Install OpenVAS On CentOS
An interesting post from Gerry Williams at gerrywilliams.net
Description:
Saw a post on r/sysadmin the other day with a walkthrough on using Docker for the first time. Thought I would take some notes:
To Resolve:
1. On the host computer, open up Hyper V and create a new Virtual Machine. Download the Centos7 iso if you don’t already have it.
2. Before starting the virtual machine, we need to edit its properties:
2a. Change UEFI option to UEFI Authority
2b. Change Network Adapter to Enable MAC Address spoofing
2c. Enable Nested Virtualization. On the host machine, open Powershell as admin and type:
| 1 | Set-Vmprocessor –Vmname Docker –Enablevirtualizationextensions $True | 
3. Install Centos7 minimal on a Virtual Machine.
4. Update it and give it a static IP, and install Docker stuff:
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | # Update: sudo yum update # Set a static ip = https://www.gerrywilliams.net/2016/10/setting-a-static-ip-in-centos/ # Install docker yum install –y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2 yum-config-manager —add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo yum-config-manager —enable docker–ce-edge yum-config-manager —enable docker–ce-test yum install docker-ce # Start and enable docker systemctl start docker systemctl enable docker | 
5. Now that docker is installed, we can search for images to run. For example, let’s install OpenVAS:
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | # Search docker images: docker search openvas # Download an image docker pull mikesplain/openvas # See images docker images | 
6. Now lets start and run it:
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | # To run: The command breakdown is: –d is background (detach), –p is ports, —name is just a name, and last is the image file. docker run –d –p 443:443 –p 9390:9390 —name openvas mikesplain/openvas # To see running docker images: docker ps # To see installation logs docker logs –ft mikesplain/openvas # Add firewall exceptions: firewall-cmd —zone=public —add-port=443/tcp —permanent firewall-cmd —zone=public —add-port=9390/tcp —permanent firewall-cmd —reload # To see all containers created, but some may be offline docker ps –a | 
7. That is it, if you want to see the OpenVAS web GUI, just go to https://10.10.10.23 (if the Centos VM static IP is 10.10.10.23) in a browser on CentOS. It should bring up OpenVAS login! Creds are ‘admin/admin’
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