Hi all :)

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

I'm sending this in advance due to the holiday break.

Focus for this month was Ansible role development.

## Ansible Roles

* Onionprobe Ansible role: * Released versions 0.0.2 to 0.0.6: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/onionprobe-role

* Onionspray Ansible Role: * We adopted Yassine Zouggari's role, which is now hosted at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/onionspray-role

* The next release is being planned: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/onionspray-role/-/i...

* Auxiliar roles: * Released a very simple Docker Ansible role: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/docker-role

* A role for basic system setup is also available: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ansible/basic-role

* These can be useful, but there's no guarantees that they'll be maintained in the long run, as they mostly contain auxiliary system tasks.

## Other releases

* Onion Launchpad 1.0.2 (a landing page for onionsites): https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onion-launchpad/changelog/#v10...

* Onionbalance 0.2.3 (load balancer for Onion Services): https://forum.torproject.org/t/onionbalance-release-0-2-3/16287

* Onionspray 1.6.2 (application to serve regular websites as onionsites): https://forum.torproject.org/t/onionspray-release-1-6-2/16014

* Onionprobe 1.2.2 (an Onion Services monitoring tool): https://forum.torproject.org/t/onionprobe-release-1-2-1/16015

## Support

Did the ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services.