Improve ease of deployment and maintenance: We will produce Ansible tasks for deploying and managing deployments of OnionPerf instances, which also allow for performing upgrades and custom configuration changes.
Ansible is an open source software tool that automates and improves configuration management and application deployment. Without tools like Ansible, setting up or updating OnionPerf experiments is a fully manually process, which can be error-prone and cumbersome. When establishing multiple OnionPerf instances, automating the setup or update process with Ansible makes it possible to run these experiments efficiently and reproducibly. In this task we will also make software changes that solve an existing disk space issue on OnionPerf instances. Right now, an OnionPerf instance keeps writing logs to its disk until that disk gets full. To solve this problem, we will sync logs to another location and delete them after a short while to keep storage requirements for OnionPerf instances constant. Ideally, we would make these logs publicly available.