Whaler is a Go program which is designed to reverse engineer docker images into the Dockerfile that created it. It currently performs the following actions
- Generates a Dockerfile from an Image
- Searches added filenames for potential secret files
- Extracts files that were added by the Docker ADD/COPY Instructions
- It also displays misc. information such as ports open, the user it runs as and environment variables.
You can read more about this on my blog Here
The easiest way is to run the tool in docker container:
docker pull pegleg/whaler
docker run -t --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro pegleg/whaler -sV=1.36 nginx:latest
docker build --rm -t pegleg/whaler .
alias whaler="docker run -t --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro pegleg/whaler"
whaler -sV=1.36 nginx:latest
This tool will pull target docker image automatically. Parameter -sV=1.36
is not always required.
Git clone the project into your $GOPATH/src directory and perform the following command
go get -u github.com/P3GLEG/Whaler
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/P3GLEG/Whaler
go build .
./Whaler
Usage of ./Whaler:
-f string
File containing images to analyze seperated by line
-filter
Filters filenames that create noise such as node_modules. Check ignore.go file for more details (default true)
-sV string
Set the docker client ID to a specific version -sV=1.36
-v Print all details about the image
-x Save layers to current directory