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Oniongroove: Deployment tool for the Onion Web

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Oniongroove is planned to be a High Availability Onion Service Deployment and Monitoring system, giving groove to the Onionbalance with Vanguards Addon and many more features.

Oniongroove acts as a proxy, load balancer or even a Content Delivery Network (CDN) using the Tor Network.

Oniongroove use case is similar to Onionspray and EOTK, essentially implementing a "reverse .onion proxy" between Tor Users and backend websites:

graph LR
  C[Client] -- .onion address via Tor Network --> O[Oniongroove CDN] -- Some network link --> U[Upstream site]

It can be used to:

  1. Create Onion Services for any existing website.
  2. Setting up "pure-onion" sites, i.e, those available only inside the Tor network.

Oniongroove aims to support both Onion Service implementations: the old C Tor and the new Arti as engines, making the migration to Arti easier.

Experimental stage

This software suite is still in the experimental stage! Check the issue queue and roadmap for details.