Hey everyone,
Today I’m sharing a project I initially built to solve a personal problem that has quickly been picking up traction: HoneyWire v2.0. Hopefully it will help you out as well!
I wanted to run high-fidelity network canaries in my network, but I couldn’t justify enterprise pricing, and I wasn’t a fan of managing custom orchestration across all my VMs to make available OSS solutions work.
So, I built HoneyWire. It’s a completely free, open-source distributed deception platform.
It uses a point-in-time CLI wizard to deploy hardened, distroless Docker traps. You run the command once, it spins up the decoy, registers it to your centralized Hub dashboard, and the setup agent completely exits. No persistent background daemons.
Main Features:
Zero-Agent: No ongoing background overhead on your hosts.
Centralized UI: Manage fleet settings, deployments, View fleet health, uptime, and lateral movement alerts.
Alerting: Built-in push notifications and SIEM forwarding.
Privacy: 100% free, open-source.
UX: 60 seconds from a fresh Linux box to an active cyber canary.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andreicscs/HoneyWire Landing Page: https://honeywire.dev/
Would love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or any feedback if you test it out!
AI Disclosure: As a student and solo developer/maintainer, I used AI as a “junior dev” during project development to help accelerate boilerplate writing and documentation. All core architecture, system structure, and security logic were fully designed and implemented by me.