Kali Linux

Part of the SSH-based OS identification family — see that page for the shared mechanism, credentials, and host key verification. Matches /etc/os-release’s ID field.

targets:
  - id: kali-host
    product: kali-linux
    address: host.example.com
    credentials: linux-host-ssh

Verified live against kalilinux/kali-rolling: ID=kali, VERSION_ID="2026.3" — a dated rolling-release snapshot, not a discrete version.

Lifecycle resolver

None — Kali is rolling-release, and endoflife.date has no calendar for it (confirmed 404) for the same reason as Gentoo. Inventory-only.