What do you do when you're tired of spinning up a Kali instance that's not customized to your liking, or you want a system that's built for more long-term use, not just a one off pentest? Security consultants, especially pentesters, use a lot of specific tools and have many different requirements. With a standard Ubuntu or Fedora install it can take a lot of time to install all those tools manually and setup configurations. Images can become outdated quickly, or you may have varying hardware and disk sizes you need to be able to get installs done on. It gets a lot more difficult if you want the process to be repeatable. Fortunately, there are tools and scripts to help with this process. In this talk I will be going over the tools, scripts, virtual environments, containers, and other methods I've found that help to streamline the process to go from a reliable and standard Linux distribution to having all the tools you need installed and working, including tools from Git repositories, as well as all your customizations.