[tor-bugs] #33429 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Decommission the snowflake-reg-test.appspot.com reflector

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#33429: Decommission the snowflake-reg-test.appspot.com reflector
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 Reporter:  dcf                      |          Owner:  dcf
     Type:  task                     |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium                   |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                   |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  appengine                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                           |         Points:
 Reviewer:                           |        Sponsor:
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Old description:

> snowflake-reg-test.appspot.com is a frontend for snowflake-
> broker.bamsoftware.com, briefly used with a Google domain front. It never
> actually worked, because this was around the time that Google stopped
> domain fronting.
>  * 2018-04-15 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
> transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=947636ae817fdb393b4fcb2901bf52bca36cef65
> Change to standalone broker.]
>  * 2018-04-30 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
> transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=88ea7a50835008debcc9e37886a604aa4210b9f2
> Switch to an Azure domain front.]
>
> On 2020-02-05, arlolra and I got an email saying that we needed to
> [https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/go-differences
> upgrade the deployment to the Go 1.11 runtime] by 2020-05-01. I tried
> doing that today, but got the error
> {{{
> ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Error Response: [7] Access Not Configured.
> Cloud Build has not been used in project snowflake-reg-test before or
> it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
> https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/cloudbuild.googleapis.com/overview?project
> =snowflake-reg-test
> then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the
> action to propagate to our systems and retry.
> }}}
> I tried doing that, but apparently [
> https://techtudor.blogspot.com/2019/11/google-app-engine-gae-will-no-
> longer.html there is no truly free tier anymore] and you can't deploy or
> redeploy apps without setting up a billing account. Rather than go
> through with that, I propose that we just disable the unused service.

New description:

 snowflake-reg-test.appspot.com is a frontend for snowflake-
 broker.bamsoftware.com, briefly used with a Google domain front. It never
 actually worked, because this was around the time that Google stopped
 domain fronting.
  * 2018-04-15 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
 transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=947636ae817fdb393b4fcb2901bf52bca36cef65
 Change to standalone broker.]
  * 2018-04-30 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
 transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=88ea7a50835008debcc9e37886a604aa4210b9f2
 Switch to an Azure domain front.]

 On 2020-02-05, arlolra and I got an email saying that we needed to
 [https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go111/go-differences
 upgrade the deployment to the Go 1.11 runtime] by 2020-05-01. I tried
 doing that today, but got the error
 {{{
 ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) Error Response: [7] Access Not Configured.
 Cloud Build has not been used in project snowflake-reg-test before or
 it is disabled. Enable it by visiting
 https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/cloudbuild.googleapis.com/overview?project
 =snowflake-reg-test
 then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the
 action to propagate to our systems and retry.
 }}}
 I tried doing that, but apparently [https://techtudor.blogspot.com/2019/11
 /google-app-engine-gae-will-no-longer.html there is no truly free tier
 anymore] and you can't deploy or redeploy apps without setting up a
 billing account. Rather than go through with that, I propose that we just
 disable the unused service.

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Comment (by dcf):

 I additionally deleted the appengine directory in
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
 transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=125e71fa6ee27a929438dafc82bba1ddc0172814
 125e71fa6ee27a929438dafc82bba1ddc0172814].

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