Docker images
The Docker images are the heart of the Exegol project. A neat choice of tools, configurations, aliases, history commands, and various customizations are prepared in multiple images adapted for multiple uses: web hacking, Active Directory, OSINT (Open Source INTelligence), etc.
All images are available on the official Dockerhub registry. This allows to offer pre-built, compressed images, so that users don’t have to build their own image, but users that choose to do so can. Pulling pre-built images, or building one, can be done with exegol install (documentation
here).
Image name |
Description |
|---|---|
full |
Includes all the tools supported by Exegol (warning: this is the heaviest image) |
ad |
Includes tools for Active Directory / internal pentesting only. |
web |
Includes tools for Web pentesting only. |
light |
Includes the lightest and most used tools for various purposes. |
osint |
Includes tools for OSINT. |
nightly |
(for developers and advanced users) contains the latest updates. This image can be unstable! |
Note
Exegol uses Docker images and containers. Understanding the difference is essential to understand Exegol.
image: think of it as an immutable template. They cannot be executed as-is and serve as input for containers. It’s not possible to open a shell in an image.
container: a container rests upon an image. A container is created for a certain image at a certain time. It’s possible to open a shell in a container. Careful though, once a container is created, updating the image it was created upon won’t have any impact on the container. In order to enjoy the new things, a new container must be created upon that updated image.