Hi
I wanted to share a project that I've been working on which allows deploying of Tor relays through terraform.
The code and documentation is here: https://github.com/andrewmichaelsmith/terrator
The focus is on running on cloud hosting providers, currently supported cloud services are digitalocean, vultr and heztner. It works - I'm using it to run some tor relays right now. There are some limitations (documented on github) though and it is still very much a work in progress.
As a bit of background, after reading the call to deploy more bridges https://blog.torproject.org/tor-censorship-in-russia/ I got thinking how useful it could be to deploy a number of bridges by simply editing a config file and pushing 'go'. After a bit of tinerking - torraform https://github.com/andrewmichaelsmith/terrator was born.
Personally I have this hooked up to Github and Terraform Cloud (both free), meaning I can simply edit 1 file in a git repo to create new relays.
Keen to hear feedback or questions!
Thanks
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, 06:48 abuse department, abuse@relayon.org wrote:
The focus is on running on cloud hosting providers, currently supported cloud services are digitalocean, vultr and heztner.
You did check the price lists?
So for those 3 I hardcode the instance type which comes it at around $5 per month per relay.
There will certainly be cheaper ways to host a relay but for the convenience this feels like a reasonable tradeoff.
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