Kasm Install

Kasm Workspaces | The Container Streaming Platform

Stream your workspace directly to your web browser on any device and from any location.

Kasm was a pretty sweet tool some of my co-workers have occasionally brought up to assist in spinning up / destroying infrastructure with ease. There are plenty of awesome pre-built / configured workspaces that are available, some specific ones to note:

• Remnux

• Kali

• Code (VS Code)

• Hunchly

• TraceLabs OSINT Image

• DOOM (the pièce de résistance)

There are plenty of other useful workspaces I've not listed. What makes KASM so great is that the workspaces operate within Docker containers so you can also add other images / builds from other known container registries, you can set workspaces to maintain persistence and not be ephemeral as Docker containers tend to be. I will be attending DEATHCON 2024, and figured there's no better way to access the lab network than installing TailScale on my Kasm workspaces, beats continuously snapshotting VM's.

Installation

Installation Guide - Single Server Installation — Kasm 1.16.0 documentation I opted into using Ubuntu 22.04, alternative supported operating systems can be found here. Additionally, there are two types of deployments:

• single server installation

• multi server installation Here I chose the single server installation since I plan to install everything to my Proxmox node. Below are the resources I ended up provisioning (out of no real review):

Resource	Value
CPU	4 Cores, 8 Threads
RAM	32 GB
HDD	500 GB

note; if you use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, cURL is not pre-installed, so you will have to install it from apt

sudo apt install curl

or

sudo snap install curl

We can then run the steps from the install.

Single Server Installation — Kasm 1.16.0 documentation

It might be helpful to run the final command and output to a text file if you do a default install, I've had occasional issues with the admin password working properly, probably due to adding an extra character on accident.

sudo bash kasm_release/install.sh > ~/kasm-install.txt

Once Kasm is installed, run:

ip a

To pull the IP of the host you installed Kasm on, you can then use a browser on your physical asset, or the Kasm VM to access the Web portal. Example:

https://192.168.1.184

Signing in with either the Kasm admin or user account.