[Question] Custom Kali based build

[corysabol]

Hello,

I'm looking at creating a customized version of open-terminal that is based on the official kali linux image - https://hub.docker.com/r/kalilinux/kali-rolling for integrating pentesting capabilities into open-webui.

I suppose it might be tenable to either fork this project and modify the Dockerfile OR maybe I could produce a new multi-build Dockerfile that uses the kali base image and the open-terminal entrypoint to support the config files, and integration with open-webui.

Just looking to see what others might think the best route is. I've built my own similar setup for a custom agent tool I developed, but I would rather spend my dev cycles leveraging the open-webui ecosystem instead.

[dgarciaf18]

The project seems to be sticking to default Python libraries (os, aiofiles, asyncio, etc.) and using the python:3.12 docker image which is Debian-based. Kali is also based on Debian, so as long as Python 3.12 is installed on the Kali image you use I can't foresee any issues. I guess the only way to figure it out is by trying it, by tinkering with the Dockerfile.

BTW this would be a nice feature for the future Terminals orchestrator (being able to select the distro)

[corysabol]

Yeah, you raise a good point about just tinkering. I was able to get it working with a custom Dockerfile that is based on kali-rolling.
Kali does some weird stuff with how it handles python packages though, so I migrated over to pipx to use a global venv and then installed and executed the open-terminal python app using pipx as well.

So far this seems to work just fine, but I have not done any extensive testing - https://github.com/corysabol/open-terminal-kali/blob/kali_based_image/Dockerfile

I agree that future terminal orchestrators would benefit from allowing you to select the distro.