In previous chapters, I have already shown you that we use Metasploit in a DigitalOcean Droplet. In this recipe, I will show you how to do it and which other options we have to deploy Metasploit in the cloud.
After creating our DigitalOcean account, before we can install Metasploit we need to create a new Droplet. DigitalOcean calls its cloud servers Droplets meaning that we will be using Infrastructure as a Service to deploy Metasploit.
In this recipe, we will use the Ubuntu 16.04.3 x64 Droplet with 4 GB memory and an 80 GB disk, which is more than enough for most of our needs.
After selecting the distribution for our Droplet, scroll to the bottom of the page, choose a hostname, and create the Droplet.
After less than a minute, we should have our Droplet up-and-running.
Now double-click on the Droplet name to access its menu.
Access the Droplet console and we can use the Launch Console
option to open a VNC connection to the Droplet or use SSH with the root...