Kali Linux
Debian-derived distribution for penetration testing and security auditing, preloaded with hundreds of tools for reconnaissance, exploitation and forensics.
Desktop environment image adding the GNOME shell, GDM login manager and core applications, giving a graphical session reachable over RDP or VNC. Built and maintained by WIEWAVE for Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace, on Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and openSUSE.
| Built & maintained by | WIEWAVE |
|---|---|
| Category | Operating Systems |
| Operating systems | Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, openSUSE |
| Marketplaces | Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace |
| Offer types | Public listing, with private offers on request |
| Marketplace | Status |
|---|---|
| Azure Marketplace | Published |
| AWS Marketplace | Published |
| Google Cloud Marketplace | Available on request |
Need it on another marketplace, or as a private offer for your organisation? cloud@wiewave.com
Each image follows its distribution's own provisioning model, package manager and security tooling — not one build relabelled several times.
LTS and interim releases, Minimal and Pro variants, built to Canonical's cloud-image conventions.
Stable and oldstable, with backports where a workload needs a newer runtime than the release ships.
RHEL 8 and 9 images, including BYOS and pay-as-you-go licensing models on each marketplace.
The 1:1 RHEL-compatible rebuild, and the default landing spot for teams migrating off CentOS Linux.
Enterprise-grade RHEL compatibility with a community governance model, on 8 and 9 streams.
Leap and Tumbleweed images with zypper-native provisioning and SUSE-consistent defaults.
The same four steps behind every offer we've published, including the hardening and CIS Benchmark checks every build goes through.
The distribution, licensing model and target marketplaces are agreed before anything is built.
Packer templates, Ansible provisioning and a pinned package set — then hardened, scanned and checked against the CIS Benchmark for its distribution.
Taken through each cloud's own certification pipeline before it goes live on the marketplace.
Rebuilt on the upstream security cadence and re-published, with old versions retired without breaking deployments.
If yours isn't here, ask our marketplace team directly.
Clean, current base images for every distribution we support — the foundation the rest of the catalog is built on.
Debian-derived distribution for penetration testing and security auditing, preloaded with hundreds of tools for reconnaissance, exploitation and forensics.
openSUSE Leap with zypper-native provisioning and the SUSE defaults teams running SLES elsewhere will recognise.
Oracle Linux images on both the Red Hat compatible kernel and UEK, for estates standardised on Oracle's stack.
Debian-based security distribution carrying penetration testing, forensics and privacy tooling, packaged as a headless cloud image for remote assessment work.
RHEL 8 and 9 base images in both BYOS and pay-as-you-go forms, so licensing follows whichever procurement route you already use.
Enterprise-grade RHEL compatibility under community governance, on both the 8 and 9 streams.
Tell us the distribution, the marketplace and the commercial model — we'll build, certify and publish it as a public listing or a private offer.