Hey everyone,
I wanted to run high-fidelity network canaries in my homelab, 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.
Features:
Zero-Agent: No ongoing background overhead on your hosts.
Centralized UI: View fleet health, uptime, and lateral movement alerts in dark mode.
Alerting: Built-in push notifications and SIEM forwarding.
Privacy: 100% free, open-source, and strictly zero telemetry.
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!
Awesome. I have bookmarked it in my Projects folder. It does look rather intriguing.
Thanks so much! I’d love to get your feedback if you end up deploying it. I’ve been staring at this codebase for so long that I’m sure I have some tunnel vision and might be blind to obvious issues. Let me know what you think!