s3-to-sftp 1.0.1

S3 to SFTP application / watcher. Feeds from S3 to SQS notifications.

Simple application that listens on a SQS Queue and transfers files from S3 to a SFTP Server.

The authentication can be done via username/password or username/private key. Private key should be stored “as-is” in AWS Secrets Manager.

The container must have an environment variable SFTP_TARGET, that follows the format below. You can set an enviroment variable for each of the below, using the property name as environment variable name.

The value in environment variables overrides the values otherwise set.

Build

You can build the docker image with the following commands

docker build . -t s3-to-sftp

Alternatively, using docker-compose

docker-compose build

Deploy with ECS Compose-X

We highly recommend that you store the value for SFTP_TARGET in AWS Secrets Manager.

Install compose-x

python3 -m venv compose-x
source compose-x/bin/activate
pip install pip -U; pip install ecs-composex

Deploy

You might need to update the settings in the aws.yaml file to meet your environment settings. On start, the connection to the SFTP server is not established, so the deployment won’t fail because of that. However, it requires to have the SFTP_TARGET details setup in before it starts listening on the SQS queue jobs.

ecs-compose-x up -d templates -f docker-compose.yaml -f aws.yaml -p s3-to-sftp-testing

Monitoring

In AWS CloudWatch, you will see new metrics in a Namespace called S3ToSFTP which is going to have some metrics, here for statistics.

These metrics are published using EMF.

SFTP_TARGET format

{
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
    "id": "sftp-secret-format",
    "type": "object",
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
        "host": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "idn-hostname"
        },
        "port": {
            "type": "number",
            "minimum": 1,
            "maximum": 65535
        },
        "username": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "password": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "default_path": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "private_key": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "private_key_pass": {
            "type": "string"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "host",
        "port",
        "username"
    ]
}