Labs

Cloud

General Purpose

Tool	Description
terragoat	Vulnerable-by-design training tool for Terraform (blog)
wrongsecrets	Vulnerable app with examples showing how to not use secrets

AWS Specific

Tool	Description
Stratus Red team	Stratus Red Team is "Atomic Red Team™" for the cloud, allowing to emulate offensive attack techniques in a granular and self-contained manner
aws-cloudsaga	Test security controls and alerts within AWS environments, using generated alerts based on security events seen by the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
sadcloud	Purposefully insecure AWS infrastructure with Terraform
cloudgoat	Vulnerable by Design AWS deployment tool
cfngoat	Vulnerable by Design Cloudformation repository
cdkgoat	Vulnerable by Design AWS CDK repository
AWS Cyber Range	Bootstrap framework for a complete offensive, defensive, reverse engineering, & security intelligence tooling in a private research lab using AWS
KaiMonkey	Vulnerable infrastructure to help understand common cloud security threats exposed via infrastructure as code
iam-vulnerable	An AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Playground
oidc-ssrf	Evil OIDC server: the OpenID Configuration URL returns a 307 to cause SSRF

GCP Specific

Tool	Description
GCPGoat	GCPGoat: A Damn Vulnerable GCP Infrastructure

Azure Specific

Tool	Description
DefendTheFlag	Lab to get started with testing out Microsoft's security products
PurpleCloud	Multi-use Hybrid + Identity Cyber Range implementing a small Active Directory Domain in Azure alongside Azure AD and Azure Domain Services
Cloud-Katana	Automate simulation steps on-demand in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments Is an event-driven, serverless compute application built on the top of Azure Functions that expedites the research process and validation of security controls
SimuLand	Lab environments that reproduce well-known techniques used in real attack scenarios, to test and verify effectiveness of related Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel detections

K8S

My Approach

• Marco Lancini Deploy Your Own Kubernetes Lab: Multiple deployment options for a Kubernetes lab
• Marco Lancini Kubernetes Lab on Baremetal: My personal approach to deploy my own Kubernetes Lab on baremetal
• Marco Lancini Remotely Access your Kubernetes Lab with Cloudflare Tunnel: How to use Cloudflare Tunnel to connect my Kubernetes Lab to the Cloudflare network

Tool	Description
k8s-lab-plz	A modular Kubernetes lab which provides an easy and streamlined way to deploy a test cluster with support for different components
kube_security_lab	Use kind to create a lab environment for testing Kubernetes exploits and security tools
kubernetes-goat	Intentionally vulnerable cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security References: guide
kind-of-insecure	Deliberately insecure Kubernetes test clusters built using kind
kubernetes-simulator	Creates a Kubernetes cluster in an AWS account, runs scenarios which misconfigure it and/or leave it vulnerable to compromise
gke-poc-toolkit	Demo generator for GKE
minik8s-ctf	A beginner-friendly CTF about Kubernetes security
kustomizegoat	Vulnerable Kustomize Kubernetes templates for training and education

Docker

Tool	Description
vulhub	Pre-Built Vulnerable Environments Based on Docker-Compose

CI/CD

Tool	Description
cicd-goat	A deliberately vulnerable CI/CD environment Companion blog post

Other

Tool	Description
Awesome-CloudSec-Labs	Awesome free cloud native security learning labs. Includes CTF, self-hosted workshops, guided vulnerability labs, and research labs.