Atlas Relay
atlasrelay.org connects Internet researchers who need
RIPE Atlas measurement credits with Atlas users who have credits to
spare. Researchers post a project, and donors send credits in one of two ways. Donors can
transfer through the RIPE Atlas API with a single-use key that holds only the credit permissions
the site needs, and the pledge is normally confirmed as soon as RIPE accepts the transfer. Donors
can also transfer by hand on atlas.ripe.net, and the researcher then confirms receipt. Once the
credits are spent, the researcher can post a short write-up of the results with a link. People
sign in with GitHub, Microsoft, Google or ORCID.
Credits are donations. Nothing is bought or sold, and donors get nothing in return. The site
never holds credits or long-lived API keys, and every transfer happens in RIPE Atlas.
Atlas Relay is a community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the RIPE NCC.
Run it locally
Needs Node 24.11 or later and Azure Functions Core Tools v4
(func) on your PATH; see CONTRIBUTING.md.
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:4280 (SWA emulator + API + Azurite)
How it is built
A React single-page app on Azure Static Web Apps, with its API on an Azure Function App (Node 24,
Flex Consumption plan) linked to the site, and data in Azure Table Storage, which the API reaches
with a managed identity instead of a key. All Azure resources are defined in Bicep under
infra/ and deployed as one deployment stack per environment by scripts/bootstrap.sh and
scripts/provision.sh. GitHub Actions deploys the site and API from main using OIDC, with no
stored Azure credentials. Pushes that touch only docs or infrastructure deploy nothing, and pull
requests only build, test and lint.
Contributing and security
Issues and pull requests are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md. Please report
security problems privately, as described in SECURITY.md, rather than in a
public issue.
Licensed under the MIT License.
Third-party notices
The site serves its own copies of two fonts, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1:
Inter (license)
and JetBrains Mono (license).
The license text also ships in each font's @fontsource package.
