[Homelab] Build your own Vulnlab with Docker

Vulnlab Installation

Installation Docker + Portainer

Welcome! After a short break I created my own open source Vulnlab. It is hosted on a Docker Container on a Raspberry Pi 5.

With Docker I can get very fast an Application which I can host in my network for penetration testing.

Below a very short Installation Guide for installing Docker on a Linux Device (in my case a Raspberry Pi) with Portainer:

1. We download the Docker script from Docker curl -fsSL https://get.Docker.com -o get-Docker.sh
2. Execute the script sudo sh get-Docker.sh
3. Add the current user to the group docker: sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
4. This applies the new group membership without requiring a full logout. newgrp docker

5. This pulls and runs the official hello-world Docker image: docker run hello-world

6. Creates a persistent volume named portainer_data. Volumes are used to store persistent data outside of containers. docker volume create portainer_data

7. This runs and gets the container Portainer on Port 9443.

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

1. Login on 127.0.0.1:9443.

It should look like that:

Installation Vulnlab from Yavuzlar

Now that we have docker running, we can easily install and manage our apps with it and portainer in a GUI.

Github Yavuzlar/VulnLab

For the installation we do the following:

Manual Installation

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/Yavuzlar/VulnLab
2. Build docker image docker build -t yavuzlar/vulnlab .
3. Run container docker run -d -p 1337:80 yavuzlar/vulnlab

Now we should see the container in Portainer and reach it on port 1337:

The application looks like that:

Hope you found this guide useful. Now we can try all of our red team techniques on our own hosted app.