Ansible Role: Snowflake proxy

An Ansible Role that installs and configures Snowflake proxy on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD

Background

Snowflake proxies are one of the systems that the Tor network has in place to address censorship. This type of bridge, currently under development, adds to the alternatives and anti-censorship efforts of Pluggable Transports (PTs) such as obfs4 and meek-azure. Bridges designed as access options for people where the Tor network is blocked. More info https://snowflake.torproject.org/

Requirements

You need root privileges or sudo user to run this role.

Supported Operating Systems

Debian Bullseye
Debian Buster
Ubuntu
ArchLinux
Fedora
FreeBSD

Role Variables (not for FreeBSD)

clients: 0

Maximum concurrent clients by default is 0 = non limit

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
      - nvjacobo.snowflake

Example Playbook with Variable clients

- hosts: snowflake
  vars:
    clients: 300
  roles:
     - nvjacobo.snowflake

The above playbook has a limit of 300 concurrent clients.

nvjacobo/snowflake