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The Onion Services Ecosystem

Deployment tools

Deployment tools¶

This is a comprehensible yet incomplete curated list of deployment tools for Onion Service sites.

It covers some of the most relevant tools to be considered and was initially compiled at tpo/onion-services/oniongroove#1.

Projects that were too basic or evidently unmaintained were removed from the result set.

Command line¶

Ansible ¶

systemfailure.net/ansible_onion_services: Create and manage Onion services with ansible - ansible_onion_services - Codeberg.org
GitHub - systemli/ansible-role-onion: Install and configure Tor Onion Services
GitHub - AnarchoTechNYC/ansible-role-tor: Securely build a system Tor and optionally configure numerous high-security Onion services.
Armando Lüscher / ansible-role-tor · GitLab

Terraform ¶

Hiro / Roid · GitLab

Python ¶

Puppet:¶

smash/tor · Installs, configures and manages Tor · Puppet Forge (seems like had Onionbalance support in the past, but that was dropped at some point)

Heroku ¶

Docker ¶

Kubernetes ¶

GitHub - bugfest/tor-controller: Run Tor onion services on Kubernetes (actively maintained)
GitHub - agabani/tor-operator: Tor Operator is a Kubernetes Operator that manages Onion Balances, Onion Keys and Onion Services to provide a highly available, load balanced and fault tolerate Tor Ingress and Tor Proxy (documentation).
ValtteriL/OnionFermenter: A tool for creating bitcoin stealing phishing clones of onion services on large scale: this is as a proof of concept showing an attack vector against users that don't properly check Onion Service address, but it's in this list as a Kubernetes deployment example.

Onionbalance:¶

Different projects dealing with Onionbalance deployment: