Ansible playbooks for Kali Linux on WSL

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Playbooks
• First-time setup

Overview

These playbooks were written to quickly set up Kali Linux running on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Playbooks

To run a playbook:

ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml

List of available playbooks:

• setup.yml: Initial setup. Installs Z Shell with Oh My Zsh and sets up my dotfiles from a Git repository.

• dev-rails.yml: Tools for Rails dev.

First-time setup

First, upgrade system packages.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

For convenience, let’s remove the need for a sudo password.

sudo visudo

Then add username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL to the bottom of the file. Now you can sudo without a password!

Next, install and upgrade pip (Python package manager):

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip

Now, install Ansible using pip:

sudo pip install ansible

Next, install SSH and generate your SSH keys

sudo apt-get install ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "username@host"

Finally, clone this repository and run the initial setup playbook.

git clone git@github.com:weimeng/ansible-ubuntu-wsl.git
cd ansible-ubuntu-wsl
ansible-playbook -i hosts setup.yml