Simple Russian Proxy

Introduction

In 2022 a lot of russian web-services, government particularly, hided themselves behind a firewall restricting access from outside of Russia. This disgraceful decision broke habits of russians living abroad disabling them using essential services. This repo aims to ease the suffering.

The repo contains the code for spinning up a very basic http proxy server in Yandex Cloud in just one command allowing to access desired websites.
A typical pattern for using this proxy consists of

1. creating the server
2. using the server
3. killing the server

This allows to keep spendings for just ₽2 per hour.

Installation

Download repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/y-popov/rus-proxy.git

Download Terraform

Configuration

Create a Yandex Cloud account

Cloud is here.

Dump cloud details

Go to the page. Copy your cloud-ID and folder-ID.

If you struggle here are help pages: [1-cloud] [2-folder]

Paste cloud details into your tfvars-file. Template is in the repo.

Authentication

At first, we need your Yandex OAuth-token. Copy it from here.

Then exchange it on IAM-token:

curl -d "{\"yandexPassportOauthToken\":\"<OAuth-token>\"}" "https://iam.api.cloud.yandex.net/iam/v1/tokens"

Copy iamToken value and paste it into tfvars-file.

Initialisation

Just type

terraform init 

Usage

Spin up proxy instance

As easy as

terraform apply -auto-approve -var-file="my.tfvars"

Fill-in proxy details

The previous step will report you IP address of your very own proxy server. Use it along with port 3128. No credentials required.

Remove proxy instance

In the end of your session kill the server:

terraform destroy -var-file="my.tfvars"

Type yes when prompted.