Cloud Development Kit deployment for Cowrie honeypots!

This is a project build with Python and AWS CDK. The goal is to have SSH honeypot infrastructure deployed and destroyed within seconds and logged to to CloudWatch for persistence or a Splunk instance can ingest it (for example).

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute this app. To manually create a virtualenv execute:

python3 -m venv .env

After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.

source .env/bin/activate

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.

cdk synth

To add additional dependencies, for example other CDK libraries, just add them to your setup.py file and rerun the pip install -r requirements.txt command.

Deploy it

Run the bootstrap for the stack

cdk bootstrap

And then deploy it

cdk deploy cdk-cowrie-honeypots

And you're done!

Infrastructure overview

Useful CDK commands

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

Enjoy the honeypots and easy deployment!