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Over the past few years, we have witnessed a radical change in the architectures and infrastructures of web applications. Traditional monolithic systems are nowadays getting replaced by microservices-based architectures, which have become the natural choice for web application development due to portability, scalability, and ease of deployment. At the same time, due to its popularity, this architecture is now the target of specific cyberattacks. In the past, honeypots have been demonstrated to be valuable tools for collecting real-world attack data and understanding the methods that attackers adopt. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no existing honeypots based on microservices architectures, which introduce new and different characteristics in the infrastructure. In this paper, we propose HoneyKube, a novel honeypot design that employs the microservices architecture for a web application. To …