In order to be able to quickly setup and configure a machine to perform forensic tasks, I built an Ansible-based playbook with different roles to provide a basic pre-configured environment of the software packages to start working.

Please note, that this is work in progress for my personal needs.

Modify inventory/hosts to match your machines and change the given username. Then you might edit playbook/playbook.yml to include or exclude certain roles. Take a look into each roles tasks/main.yml file to see, what packages are installed.

├── inventory
├── playbook
└── roles
    ├── base
    ├── python
    ├── shell-environment
    |── docker
    ├── emacs
    ├── disk-forensics
    ├── malware-forensics
    ├── network-forensics
    └── office

Make sure to install ansible for python3 on the controller side:

pip3 install ansible

Furtheron check, that the box to configure is reachable via SSH without a password prompt (use ssh-copy-id to transfer your keys, if not)

After modifying the hosts file run the playbook to provision a box with the following command:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts playbook/playbook.yml --ask-become-pass -vvv

If you do not care about supplying the sudo-password in cleartext or delete it afterwards anyway, use:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts playbook/playbook.yml --extra-vars "ansible_become_pass=super_secret"