It will see you need to log out of your account and back in, and you will need to make sure you are an administrator to make sure the installation goes smoothly. Tick the box next to Containers and then click ‘Ok’.īrowse to Dockers home page and download the Docker for Windows Community Edition.Īfter Downloading, follow the bouncing ball to install Docker. Using, Win + r, enter ‘optionalfeatures’ to access the ‘Turn Windows Features on or off’ prompt. On Windows 10 (Anniversary Edition), you will firstly need to enable the use of containers. This post will take you through setting up and configuring an instance of Kali Linux in Docker on Windows 10. Spinning up a Docker Container is extremely quick and can provide you instance access to all your tools inside a command prompt of your host operating system. Recently I have found Docker as a way to containerise a Kali instance. Sometimes when you need to quickly spin up a tool in can be cumbersome to have to boot up the full VM to get it running. This workflow has been working fine for sometime now, however I have been wanting something that is a bit more natural, quick and easy to use. I am typically on my Surface Pro 4 using Windows 10 and using VMWare Workstation. Like most people I have been running an instance of Kali in a virtual machine.

Kali on docker