nessus

Nessus

Nessus is a vulnerability scanner used for infrastructure and host security assessments.
This setup runs the official Nessus container with persistent scan/config data.

How it works

flowchart LR
    Admin([Admin]) -->|:8834 HTTPS| Nessus[Nessus Scanner]
    Nessus --> Targets[Scan Targets]
    Nessus --> Data[(nessus-data volume)]

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1. The Nessus service starts and exposes the web interface.
2. You complete initial setup/license in the Nessus UI.
3. Scan policies and results are stored in the mounted volume.
4. Future restarts reuse the same Nessus state/data.

Stack details in this repo

• Image: tenable/nessus:10.7.0-ubuntu
• Container name: nessus
• Web UI: https://<host-ip>:8834
• Persistent data:
  • nessus-data:/opt/nessus

Environment variables

No environment variables are required by this compose file.

How to run

From the repository root:

cd nessus
docker compose up -d

Open:

• https://localhost:8834

Useful commands:

docker compose ps
docker compose logs -f
docker compose restart
docker compose down

Notes

• Browser certificate warnings are expected on first load.
• Initial plugin updates can take time before Nessus is fully ready.