Depending on the Marketplace App you selected, there may be additional configuration options available. Under the Select App section, select the app you would like to deploy.Ĭomplete the form by following the steps and advice within the Creating a Compute Instance guide. This displays the Linode Create page with the Marketplace tab pre-selected. Log in to the Cloud Manager and select the Marketplace link from the left navigation menu. See Get Started with Marketplace Apps for complete steps. The Linode Marketplace allows you to easily deploy software on a Compute Instance using the Cloud Manager. Now it’s time to connect to your instance (you can close LISH console if you want).īecause VNC is an unencrypted protocol, we’ll create an SSH tunnel to encrypt the connection.This Marketplace App extends Linode’s Kali Linux distribution image by allowing the user to preinstall one of the available metapackages.

Wait until you see the VNC configuration lines and the line “Installation complete!”. Installation process will take some minutes, you can check the progress by clicking on Launch LISH console. Finally, add a root password and click on the “Create Linode” button at the bottom. Scroll down again and select a region and a Linode plan (“Linode 2GB” plan works fine but you can test the “Nanode 1GB” plan if you want). Selecting both is the same as selecting Kali Everything Package.īelow these options, you can choose whether to install a VNC server and XFCE. Keep in mind that the installation process will take more time if you select Kali Everything option. Under Advanced options you can select whether you want to install all available programs on Kali ( Kali Everything Package) or only the non-GUI ones ( Kali Headless Package). You’ll need these credentials to connect to the VPS later.

Scroll down and type a VNC user and password. Go to Marketplace tab and select Kali Linux. You can create a non-graphical Kali Linux instance by selecting the OS under Distributions -> Images, but we are going to connect to the VPS with VNC, so we can use a graphical desktop. Go to your Linode management page ( ) and click on Create Linode.

They even include a version with TigerVNC and XFCE so you can connect to a graphical desktop using VNC. Akamai Linode has recently added Kali Linux to their list of available operating systems for their VPS.

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