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!

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.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Just going to comment here because I don’t need to keep dismissing reports repeatedly - this post is entirely on-topic, breaks no rules, inclusive of the newly formed rule (not yet made official in the sidebar, but so far with rather consistent support as written) as its fully open and not paywalled in any way, and licensed under AGPLv3.

    @[email protected] I would recommend you add your AI disclosure to the post itself though, noting how you used it as you already have in the comments.