Empire VS Dokku

IAB stands for Initial Access Broker. these are hackers who gain initial access, mainly to companies and sell that access to third party groups such as ransomware groups. Powershell Empire is an open source post exploitation tool for windows and u can find it on github: https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire.git

I evaluated this a while back. Cool idea but limited application in a corporate environment. But for personal use, why not?

Someone needs to open a document for the canary token to trigger. Even the smallest company with M365 gets MSIP (formerly Azure Information Protection), if you classify your docs right, only people who own or have been shared the document can decrypt it and even without a good classification, you get logs of any M365 document being opened, so why can't I just have a regular but public doc everywhere and monitor when it gets opened from external IPs, user agents,etc....

I struggled to show value for this. Honehashes are more interesting for me: https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire/blob/master/data/mod...

I've installed Empire C2 on an Arch VM. I've installed it from the github https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire but the API is not working as expected.

Is the new version. The original Empire one was discontinued Old: https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire New: https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Empire

PowerShell Empire is a post-exploitation framework written primarily in PowerShell. It is something to consider from a security perspective if remote PowerShell commands are enabled in the environment.

If you want to dig into it anyways, Dokku is an interesting mention. They provide an Open Source PaaS that you can install on your server to simplify self hosting containers.

When I came across Coolify, I thought of giving it a try. I am aware of Dokku, but I never really tried it because it doesn't have a UI. I work primarily as a UI developer, so having a nice UI to work with is a plus for me.

I run all my projects on Dokku. It’s a sweet spot for me between a barebones VPS with Docker Compose and something a lot more complicated like k8s. Dokku comes with a bunch of solid plugins for databases that handle backups and such. Zero downtime deploys, TLS cert management, reverse proxies, all out of the box. It’s simple enough to understand in a weekend and has been quietly maintained for many years. The only downside is it’s meant mostly for single server deployments, but I’ve never needed another server so far.

https://dokku.com/

Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

https://ness.sh

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

2) https://render.com

3) https://fly.io

4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

All in all, I really recommend trying out Dokku if you are a developer interested in hosting your own projects. It makes it super easy to get everything you need to get up and running without having to worry about the specifics. And the price is impossible to beat!

The installation instructions are on the frontpage of our site. Thats basically all you need to do to install Dokku. As far as using it, we have a simplified tutorial here.

Dokku is a lightweight and open-source PaaS platform that simplifies application deployment by leveraging Docker. With Dokku, developers can easily push their applications using Git, allowing Dokku to build and run them in isolated containers. Its CLI-only approach and plugin architecture make it highly extensible. Dokku's modular plugins enable features like database integration, Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and automated Slack notifications, giving developers flexibility and control over their PaaS environment.