prowler on CentOS7

08 Feb 2019 | One-minute read

I’ve been experimenting with tools for benchmarking AWS deployments. One tool I experimented with is (prowler)[https://github.com/toniblyx/prowler]. However, it doesn’t seem to run nicely under Windows unless you have cygwin.

After a few failures, I decided to just install CentOS 7 into Hyper-V (mostly because I hadn’t tried to run CentOS in Hyper-V and was curious what I would find). Well, it was more complex than I thought. For reference, the particular version I had was:

$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)

After installing CentOS into Hyper-V, you need to setup networking. There is a good (Stack Overflow post)[https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17436/centos-on-hyperv-eth0-not-in-ifconfig] on how to do this.

Search and download Linux Integration Disk. I downloaded the ISO.
Connect the ISO with Hyper-V.
Mount the ISO: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
Run the install script sudo /media/install.sh
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 so that it contains at least the following:
```
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
```
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network so that it contains at least the following:
```
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=your.choise.lan
```
Reboot with reboot

Next, install pip, git, and the aws cli

Update yum yum -y update
Enable EPEL by installing the yum package yum -y install epel-release
Install pip from yum yum -y install python-pip git
Install the AWS CLI pip install awscli

Configure AWS CLI in the usual way with

aws configure

Next install prowler

git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/prowler
cd prowler

And finally run prowler

./prowler