object-storage-proxy 0.4.0

<object-storage-proxy ⚡> Yet Another Object Storage Proxy

<object-storage-proxy ⚡> Yet Another Object Storage Reverse Proxy

📌 Note: This project is still under heavy development, and its APIs are subject to change.

Introduction

A fast and safe in-process reverse proxy server, based on Cloudflare's pingora, to reverse proxy AWS and IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets and integrate your Authentication and Authorization services.

• Compatible with AWS SDK -> aws cli/boto3, polars, spark, datafusion, ...
• Decouples frontend from backend authentication and authorization.
• Python interface: pass in callables for credentials fetching, validation, lookup secret for access_key (with cache).
• Compatibility Gateway between systems that support only 1 hmac credentials pair, and multi-credentials buckets backend.

Implementation

The Server Config accepts the following:

proxy_server_config = ProxyServerConfig(
    cos_map=cos_map,
    bucket_creds_fetcher=do_hmac_creds,
    validator=do_validation,
    http_port=6190,
    https_port=8443,
    threads=1,
    verify=False,
    hmac_keystore=hmac_keys,
    skip_signature_validation=False,
    hmac_fetcher=lookup_secret_key
)

argument	description	optional	default value
cos_map	bucket configuration, see below		NA
bucket_creds_fetcher	python callable to retrieve credentials for a given bucket, to return either api key or hmac key pair	✅	NA
validator	python callable, validates access for a given token/bucket combination	✅	NA
http_port	server listener port on http	✅ at least http_port or https_port, or both	NA
https_port	server listener port on https	✅ at least http_port or https_port, or both	NA
threads	number of service threads	✅	1
verify	ignore ssl verification errors on backend storage (IBM/AWS) (for dev purposes)	✅	False
hmac_keystore
skip_signature_validation	ignore ssl verification errors on frontend (for dev purposes)	✅	False

The bucket dict contains for each bucket:

- endpoint host
- port
- api key (optional)
- hmac access key (optional)
- hmac secret key (optional)
- ttl (optional, default 300) -> keep this reasonably short, but size to your needs

cos_map = {
    "bucket1": {
        "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
        "port": 443,
        "ttl": 0
    },
    "bucket2": {
        "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
        "port": 443,
        "apikey": "apikey"
    },
    "proxy-bucket01": {
        "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
        "port": 443,
        "access_key": "<redacted>",
        "secret_key": "<redacted>",
        "ttl": 300
    },
    "proxy-aws-bucket01": {
        "host": "s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com",
        "region": "eu-west-3",
        "access_key": os.getenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY"),
        "secret_key": os.getenv("AWS_SECRET_KEY"),
        "port": 443,
        "ttl": 300
    }    
}

The Python callables take two arguments: TODO: add prefix for fine-grained validation

- token: parsed from the original aws request's authorization header
- bucket: parsed from the uri path

    def your_credentials_fetcher(token: str, bucket: str) -> str
    def your_request_authorizer(token: str, bucket: str) -> bool

The Problem

secrets

IBM COS Storage is built in a way where buckets are grouped by a cos (Cloud Object Storage) instance. Access to a bucket is managed by either an api key or hmac secrets, configured on the cos instance.

endpoint

Each bucket has its own endpoint: <bucket_name>.s3..cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud:.

The port is not always different, though, but it might be. Depends on your implementation.

You can imagine managing multiple buckets across instances can become quite cumbersome, even with aws profiles etc.

solution

There are two ways to access a bucket: through virtual addressing style (bucket.ibm-cos-host:port) and path style (ibm-cos-host/bucket).

your client (aws s3 compatible) -> http(s)://this-proxy/bucket01 -> https://bucket01.s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud:443

1. translate path style to virtual style
2. abstract authentication & authorization

Pass in a function which maps bucket to instance (credentials), and a function to map bucket to port (endpoint)

authentication & authorization

The advantage is we can plug in a python authentication function and another function for authorization, allowing for fine-grained control.

authentication

We use the standard aws hmac header and aws v4 request signing algorithm.

authorization

Pass in a callable from python which will be called from rust. This will be cached (ttl) for consecutive requests.

Examples

With local configuration.

~/.aws/config

[profile osp]
region = eu-west-3
output = json
services = osp-services
s3 =
    addressing_style = path

[services osp-services]
s3 =
  endpoint_url = http://localhost:6190

~/.aws/credentials

[osp]
aws_access_key_id = MYLOCAL123  # <-- this could be an internal client identifier, to fetch openid connect/oauth2 token or anything that makes sense for your business
aws_secret_access_key = nothingmeaningful # <-- private key to sign original request

Set up a minimal server implementation:

import json
import os
import random
import object_storage_proxy as osp

from dotenv import load_dotenv

from object_storage_proxy import start_server, ProxyServerConfig


_TRUES  = {"y", "yes", "t", "true", "on", "1"}
_FALSES = {"n", "no", "f", "false", "off", "0"}


def strtobool(val: str) -> bool:
    """Convert a string to True/False, raise ValueError otherwise."""
    v = val.lower()
    if v in _TRUES:
        return True
    if v in _FALSES:
        return False
    raise ValueError(f"invalid truth value {val!r}")


def do_api_creds(token: str, bucket: str) -> str:
    """Fetch credentials (ro, rw, access_denied) for the given bucket, depending on the token. """
    apikey = os.getenv("COS_API_KEY")
    if not apikey:
        raise ValueError("COS_API_KEY environment variable not set")
    
    print(f"Fetching credentials for {bucket}...")
    return apikey


def do_hmac_creds(token: str, bucket: str) -> str:
    """ Fetch HMAC credentials (ro, rw, access_denied) for the given bucket, depending on the token """
    access_key = os.getenv("ACCESS_KEY")
    secret_key = os.getenv("SECRET_KEY")
    if not access_key or not secret_key:
        raise ValueError("ACCESS_KEY or SECRET_KEY environment variable not set")
        
    print(f"Fetching HMAC credentials for {bucket}...")

    return json.dumps({
        "access_key": access_key,
        "secret_key": secret_key
    })

def lookup_secret_key(access_key: str) -> str | None:
    # get all environment variables ending in ACCESS_KEY
    access_keys = [{key:value} for key, value in os.environ.items() if key.endswith("ACCESS_KEY") and value==access_key ]

    if len(access_keys) > 0:
        access_key_var = next((k for k, v in access_keys[0].items() if v == access_key), None)

        secret_key_var = access_key_var.replace("ACCESS_KEY", "SECRET_KEY")
        return os.getenv(secret_key_var, None)
    else:
        print(f"no access keys found for : {access_key}")


def do_validation(token: str, bucket: str) -> bool:
    """ Authorize the request based on token for the given bucket. 
        You can plug in your own authorization service here.
        The token is a client identifier used to fetch an authorization token and further authenticate/authorize.
        The bucket is the bucket name.
        The function should return True if the request is authorized, False otherwise.
    """

    print(f"PYTHON: Validating headers: {token} for {bucket}...")
    # return random.choice([True, False])
    return True


def main() -> None:
    load_dotenv()

    counting = strtobool(os.getenv("OSP_ENABLE_REQUEST_COUNTING", "false"))

    if counting:
        osp.enable_request_counting()
        print("Request counting enabled")

    apikey = os.getenv("COS_API_KEY")
    if not apikey:
        raise ValueError("COS_API_KEY environment variable not set")

    cos_map = {
        "bucket1": {
            "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
            "region": "eu-de",
            "port": 443,
            "apikey": apikey,
            "ttl": 0
        },
        "bucket2": {
            "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
            "region": "eu-de",
            "port": 443,
            "apikey": apikey
        },
        "proxy-bucket01": {
            "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
            "region": "eu-de",
            # "access_key": os.getenv("ACCESS_KEY"),
            # "secret_key": os.getenv("SECRET_KEY"),
            "port": 443,
            "ttl": 300
        },
        "proxy-bucket05": {
            "host": "s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",
            "region": "eu-de",
            "access_key": os.getenv("PROXY_BUCKET05_ACCESS_KEY"),
            "secret_key": os.getenv("PROXY_BUCKET05_SECRET_KEY"),
            "port": 443,
            "ttl": 300
        },
        "proxy-aws-bucket01": {
            "host": "s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com",
            "region": "eu-west-3",
            "access_key": os.getenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY"),
            "secret_key": os.getenv("AWS_SECRET_KEY"),
            "port": 443,
            "ttl": 300
        }
    }

    hmac_keys= [
        # {
        #     "access_key": os.getenv("LOCAL_ACCESS_KEY"),
        #     "secret_key": os.getenv("LOCAL_SECRET_KEY")
        # },
        {
            "access_key": os.getenv("LOCAL2_ACCESS_KEY"),
            "secret_key": os.getenv("LOCAL2_SECRET_KEY")
        },

    ]

    ra = ProxyServerConfig(
        cos_map=cos_map,
        bucket_creds_fetcher=do_hmac_creds,
        validator=do_validation,
        http_port=6190,
        # https_port=8443,
        threads=1,
        # verify=False,
        hmac_keystore=hmac_keys,
        skip_signature_validation=False,
        hmac_fetcher=lookup_secret_key
    )

    start_server(ra)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Run with aws-cli (but could be anything compatible with the aws s3 api like polars, spark, presto, ...):

$ aws s3 ls s3://proxy-bucket01/ --recursive --summarize --human-readable --profile osp
2025-04-17 17:45:30   33 Bytes README.md
2025-04-17 17:48:04   33 Bytes README2.md

Total Objects: 2
   Total Size: 66 Bytes
$

Server output:

$ uv run python test_server.py
2025-04-19T13:19:54.402023+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy: Logger initialized; starting server on http port 6190 and https port 8443
2025-04-19T13:19:54.402361+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy: Bucket creds fetcher provided: Py(0x100210680)
Fetching credentials for bucket01...
2025-04-19T13:19:54.402485+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy: Callback returned: Kn2t...
[src/lib.rs:327:5] &run_args.cos_map = Py(
    0x000000010061aa00,
)
2025-04-19T13:19:54.403738+02:00  INFO pingora_core::server: Bootstrap starting
2025-04-19T13:19:54.403852+02:00  INFO pingora_core::server: Bootstrap done
2025-04-19T13:19:54.424489+02:00  INFO pingora_core::server: Server starting
PYTHON: Validating headers: MYLOCAL123 for proxy-bucket01...
2025-04-19T13:19:58.124729+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::utils::validator: Callback returned: false
PYTHON: Validating headers: MYLOCAL123 for proxy-bucket01...
2025-04-19T13:20:00.919320+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::utils::validator: Callback returned: true
2025-04-19T13:20:01.181775+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::credentials::secrets_proxy: No cached token found for proxy-bucket01, fetching ...
2025-04-19T13:20:01.181859+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::credentials::secrets_proxy: Fetching bearer token for the API key
2025-04-19T13:20:01.739385+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::credentials::secrets_proxy: Received access token
2025-04-19T13:20:01.739600+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy::credentials::secrets_proxy: Fetched new token for proxy-bucket01
2025-04-19T13:20:01.739668+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy: Sending request to upstream: https://proxy-bucket01.s3.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/?list-type=2&prefix=&encoding-type=url
2025-04-19T13:20:01.739922+02:00  INFO object_storage_proxy: Request sent to upstream.

test

See the included python test script.

Create self-signed certificates and export the environment variables:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 \
  -newkey rsa:4096 \
  -keyout key.pem \
  -out cert.pem \
  -config localhost.cnf

export TLS_CERT_PATH=/full/path/cert.pem
export TLS_KEY_PATH=/full/path/key.pem

Status

• pingora proxy implementation
• pass in credentials handler (which may return either api key string or json string with access_key and secret_key )
• cache credentials
• pass in bucket/instance and bucket/port config
• split in workspace crate with core, cli and python crates (too many specifics for python)
• config mgmt
• cache authorization (with optional ttl)
• http frontend (optional)
• https frontend (supports HTTP/2) (optional)
• configurable request counting
• call the api key fetcher callback only once, save to cos map
• config for #threads in ProxyServerConfig
• also pass path and method to python callbacks and cache by token/bucket/path/method (identity based access/cache)
• option to disable upstream/peer certificate validation (for development, not production!)
• expose pingora proxy server and services configuration to python
• exclude proxy headers (x-forwarded-proto, x-forwarded-host, ..) for signing
• https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/9214 (workaround: export AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=WHEN_REQUIRED)
• spark streaming writes