Torbrowser¶

Description¶

This Ansible role installs and configures the Tor service and the Tor Browser Launcher, providing a privacy-focused web browsing environment on Pacman-based Linux distributions.

Overview¶

The dsk-torbrowser role uses the community.general.pacman module to:

Install tor (the core Tor network service)
Install torbrowser-launcher (the launcher for Tor Browser)

Architecture¶

ARCHITECTURE.md draws Torbrowser from its own metadata: the containers it runs under compose, what changes under swarm, how each volume is backed, and every role it depends on or is depended upon by.

Section	Drawn from
Compose	`meta/services.yml`
Swarm	`meta/services.yml` replicas and placement
Volumes	`meta/volumes.yml` against the NFS decision chain
Dependencies	`meta/services.yml` and `meta/main.yml` of every role

Features¶

Idempotent installation of Tor and Tor Browser Launcher
Ensures the Tor service is available for anonymous network traffic
Simplifies first-time setup of Tor Browser

Quick Setup¶

Development¶

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy Torbrowser onto the local stack:

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=dsk-torbrowser full_cycle=false

Production¶

Install Torbrowser directly onto the target machine: clone the repository, install the OS prerequisites and the repository toolchain, then deploy against localhost over a local connection (no SSH, no container):

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
bash scripts/install/package.sh
make install
source scripts/meta/env/load.sh

APP=dsk-torbrowser
DOMAIN="<your-domain>"
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"
INVENTORY=inventories/production
infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
  --inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --host localhost \
  --include "$APP" \
  --vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}"
infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
  --diff -vv

Further Resources¶

Credits¶

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).

That licence covers this role. The software it deploys is a separate grant: MPL-2.0, under which commercial use is allowed. You owe its authors this much: publish the source of changes you distribute. Permission for one of the two is not permission for the other.