Installing OpenVAS Using Docker Images

OpenVAS is a powerful open source vulnerability scanning tool provided by the good people at Greenbone. But, historically, installing it on your own servers has been a nightmare of compatibility and dependency problems. Greenbone recently made official Docker container images available that simplify the process (saving them from having to spend their days responding to desperate cries for support). In this video, I'll show you how to quickly get OpenVAS up and running on your system using those Docker images.
This video comes from my Pluralsight course, "OpenVAS Concepts and Scanning" - which covers everything you'll need to know about performing effective vulnerability scans using OpenVAS. If you find it useful, why not watch the full course over at Pluralsight?
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00:00 Why use the official Docker containers to install OpenVAS?
01:07 The basic system requirements and steps necessary for a successful OpenVAS install
02:45 Launching OpenVAS and confirming all the components are running
03:20 Creating a password for the admin user

[@gkambli]

How to add a remote scanner to this setup?

[@davidbclinton]

The simplest way would be to create a port forwarding rule in the public-facing router where your targets live. The rule would permit access only to hosts coming from your public IP address. You may also need to get access to individual hosts within that remote network, but that'll work the same way as on a local network.

[@enzoscandelt3350]

that won't work, community edition is full of bugs

[@davidbclinton]

I don't know. I've had pretty good experiences with the community edition lately.

[@enzoscandelt3350]

@@davidbclinton Yes for me too, but only with Ubuntu. when I try it with debian there is a lot of issues, I guess the version YML is not compatible with docker compose in debian

[@davidbclinton]

@@enzoscandelt3350 That's possible. I've been using primarily Ubuntu by habit for so many years that I sometimes forget there are other distros. :)

[@enzoscandelt3350]

@@davidbclinton Yes Ubuntu is always working fine for me. Thanks for the repply