[tor-project] Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, October 2024

[rhatto]

Hi all :)

This is my monthly status report for October 2024 with the main relevant
activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the
period.

# Onionprobe Ansible Role

A considerable time was spent finding ways to structure and test Ansible
roles, collections and playbooks through GitLab CI. Goal is to provide
easier-to use procedures to manage Onion Services infrastructure.

As a direct result of this research, it was possible to finally refactor and
release an Ansible role to manage Onionprobe, a monitoring tool for onionsites:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/onionprobe-role

It was interesting to research how to do basic Ansible tests using GitLab CI,
and a special thanks goes to TPA for providing the base Podman image which
allows running Podman in a GitLab CI job:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/base-images

# Onionprobe

Onionprobe itself got some improvements, including support for running the
standalone monitor node with Podman:
https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/standalone/

# OnionSec

The OnionSec library and command line for testing onionsites got some
enhancements as well: https://github.com/TheEnbyperor/onion-sec/pull/1

# Libraries

The Onion Services Ecosystem got a Libraries page:
https://onionservices.torproject.org/dev/libraries/

It still needs some improvements, and also some input from the upstream
devs to check accuracy:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ecosystem/-/issues/21

# Support

Finally, also did the usual and ongoing sponsored work with deployment,
maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services.

-- 
Silvio Rhatto
pronouns he/him
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