I:
Is there a way to collectively install and manage multiple VPS relays?
yes https://medium.com/@nusenu/deploying-tor-relays-with-ansible-6612593fa34d
Thank you Nusenu for your many sensible contributions on this list.
I stumble at the need for a Linux master machine. Do I therefore need a Linux VM or a VPS just for the controller?
Australis
-----Original Message----- From: nusenu-lists@riseup.net Sent: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:25:00 +0000 To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] how to set-up multiple debian relays at once
I:
Is there a way to collectively install and manage multiple VPS relays?
yes https://medium.com/@nusenu/deploying-tor-relays-with-ansible-6612593fa34d
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I:
Thank you Nusenu for your many sensible contributions on this list.
I stumble at the need for a Linux master machine. Do I therefore need a Linux VM or a VPS just for the controller?
you don't need an additional VPS just for ansible, you can make one of your relays the ansible controller.
Are you talking about multiple instances on one VPS, or multiple VPS instances?
If you have multiple VPS instances, and your VPS provider supports imaging, you can just copy the images to as many relays as you want. If you go this route, just make sure that you haven't let Tor generate a relay private key yet (so don't run Tor with ORPort before creating your image)
You can also use scripts for setting up Tor relays with tools like Ansible, Docker, etc. For instance, an Ansible role:
https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor
If you want multiple instances on a single VPS, Debian has something handy called tor-instance-create:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/tor-instance-create.8.html
I don't know enough about Debian (I run FreeBSD). If you don't like tor-instance-create and are willing to use FreeBSD, they also make it easy to have multiple instances on a single computer:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/tor/files/pkg-message.in?revi...
-Neel Chauhan
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On 2018-06-16 07:18, I wrote:
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Thank you, nusenu and neel for giving proper answers.
It seems that nusenu's Relayor via Ansible is exactly what I was thinking of. The question was about running a lot bargain VPSs around the planet.
I'll give it a look and see how I go.
Robert
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