[tor-relays] Terraform to deploy Tor Relays

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 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 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

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Andy Smith

http://andrewmichaelsmith.com | @bingleybeep

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The focus is on running on cloud hosting providers, currently supported cloud services are digitalocean, vultr and heztner.

You did check the price lists?

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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