Rebuilding Parrot and Using Ansible to Script Customizations to My Image

The Github Repo: https://github.com/IppSec/parrot-build

00:00 – Intro downloading the HTB Edition of Parrot and talking about basic VM Things
02:20 – Talking about using Ansible to install software after and why we should not use Snapshot’s for a long-term solution.
04:00 – Parrot has been installed! Fixing up the Terminal real quick and talking about how to set the prompt like I have it
08:00 – Installing Ansible with apt
09:30 – Creating our first playbook, doing some quick introduction things
15:30 – Creating an Ansible Role to configure tmux
21:50 – Looking at all the ansible_facts to see the variable where our home is stored
24:20 – Using the copy module in ansible to copy files to our users home directory
27:55 – Start creating an ansible role for customizing our terminal
30:10 – Looking at how Mate Terminal creates profiles and exporting our settings so ansible can load it. Lots of using dconf
37:50 – Using Ansible to start configuring mate terminal
38:27 – Creating a new fact (variable) and using regex_replace to remove the last character, so we can append to the list.
43:30 – Using when, so an ansible task will be skipped if the string ‘video’ is in profile_list.
48:10 – Creating an Ansible Role to install tools such as Kerbrute
49:15 – This time our role will have multiple task files, so when we have 100 tools we will be able to easily remove tools we don’t want
51:10 – Using the ansible shell module to run multiple commands
55:30 – Ansible script complete! Rebuilt my VM and am running the script to see if it works
57:10 – Looking at the role that errored, showing when there are no profiles /org/mate/terminal/global does not exist
58:00 – Adding another check to create a standard profile_list.value when profile_list is None
59:40 – Re-running our playbook and having our parrot built!