[tor-project] Rhatto's Public Monthly Status Report, March 2025

Hi all :slight_smile:

This is my monthly status report for March 2025 with the main relevant
activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the
period.

March was a very busy month, with many releases.

# Introducing Onimages: Onion Service container images

Now there are fresh container images readily available and tuned for Onion
Services usage.

This was worked on during the last days of March and released today:

* Repository:
  The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onimages 路 GitLab

* Documentation
  Intro - The Onion Services Ecosystem

* Forum post:
  Announcing Onimages: Onion Service container images

# Onionprobe: monitoring tool for Onion Services

Onionprobe got a new release, and then some additional improvements:

* 1.3.0 release:
  Onionprobe security release 1.3.0

* Improved Prometheus alerts (and wrote unit tests for that):
  Tests for Prometheus alerting rules (#102) 路 Issues 路 The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionprobe 路 GitLab

* Improved Debian package CI:
  Improved Debian package CI (#94) 路 Issues 路 The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionprobe 路 GitLab

# Onionmine: Onion Services key and certs generator

Onionmine had it's 1.0.0 release, and right after was refactored
with many new features and enhancements resulting in the 1.1.0
version:

* Highlights:
  * Tutorial page:
    Tutorial - The Onion Services Ecosystem

  * Security page:
    Security - The Onion Services Ecosystem

* ChangeLog:
  ChangeLog - The Onion Services Ecosystem

# Other releases

* The Onionspray Log Parser for onionsite metrics got it's 3.0.0 release:
  ChangeLog.md 路 main 路 The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionspray Log Parser 路 GitLab

* AnCIble (CI for Ansible) 0.0.2 release:
  ChangeLog.md 路 main 路 The Tor Project / Onion Services / Ansible / AnCIble 路 GitLab

* Onion Services Ecosystem docs 1.0.0 finally released:
  ChangeLog.md 路 main 路 The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onion Services Ecosystem Documentation 路 GitLab

# Other work

* Found some issues with GitLab CI. One of them prevented lintian installation
  when running TPA base images:
  Corrupted lintian installation using Debian images (#21) 路 Issues 路 The Tor Project / TPA / base-images 路 GitLab

* Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion
  Services.

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Silvio Rhatto
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