How To: Applied Purple Teaming Lab Build on Azure with Terraform (Windows DC, Member, and HELK!)

This post provides instructions to deploy a three-host cybersecurity lab (Windows DC, Windows workstation, HELK) in Azure using Terraform and Azure CLI, including acquiring Azure service principal credentials, configuring the APT-Lab-Terraform LabBuilder.py, and building the environment in roughly 24–27 minutes; it notes default access (RDP to labs.local\itadmin, 'APTClass!'), key service ports (Kafka 9092, Logstash 5044, Elastic 443, SSH 22), estimated costs (~$6–$8/day, or within $200 Azure credits), and links to related resources.