Honey, I Containerized the Kids: Deploying Honeypots on Azure 🍯

Utilizing your £150 free Azure credits using honeypots as a learning tool for Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.

If you’re new to cloud computing and are looking to gain knowledge in this space, one of the most recommended certifications you can get is the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: AZ-900. If you have never used Microsoft Azure, you’re in luck. For creating your account, new users will get £150 cloud credits which you can use on the Azure Portal. If you are looking to pursue your Data Science Microsoft accreditation like I am, you have to start somewhere right?

For AZ-900, you will need to be able to (amongst other things):

• Describe cloud concepts
• Describe core Azure services
• Describe security, privacy, compliance, and trust

And by deploying a honeypot, it actually gives you the perfect experience to play around with some of the services, config and also understand budgeting cloud resources and utilizing some more complex setups (Bastion).

Resources we will need:

• A Microsoft Azure account (preloaded with the £150 Azure free subscription)
• T-Pot Honeypot
• A Standard build virtual machine running Debian 10 “Buster”

So let’s begin!