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This post describes how I ve put together a simple static content server for kubernetes clusters using a Pod with a persistent volume and multiple containers: an sftp server to manage contents, a web server to publish them with optional access control and another one to run scripts which need access to the volume filesystem. The sftp server runs using MySecureShell, the web server is nginx and the script runner uses the webhook tool to publish endpoints to call them (the calls will come from other Pods that run backend servers or are executed from Jobs or CronJobs).

HistoryThe system was developed because we had a `NodeJS` API with endpoints to upload files and store them on S3 compatible services that were later accessed via HTTPS, but the requirements changed and we needed to be able to publish folders instead of individual files using their original names and apply access restrictions using our API. Thinking about our requirements the use of a regular filesystem to keep the files and folders was a good option, as uploading and serving files is simple. For the upload I decided to use the sftp protocol, mainly because I already had an sftp container image based on mysecureshell prepared; once we settled on that we added sftp support to the API server and configured it to upload the files to our server instead of using S3 buckets. To publish the files we added a nginx container configured to work as a reverse proxy that uses the ngx_http_auth_request_module to validate access to the files (the sub request is configurable, in our deployment we have configured it to call our API to check if the user can access a given URL). Finally we added a third container when we needed to execute some tasks directly on the filesystem (using `kubectl exec` with the existing containers did not seem a good idea, as that is not supported by `CronJobs` objects, for example). The solution we found avoiding the NIH Syndrome (i.e. write our own tool) was to use the webhook tool to provide the endpoints to call the scripts; for now we have three:
one to get the disc usage of a `PATH`,
one to `hardlink` all the files that are identical on the filesystem,
one to copy files and folders from S3 buckets to our filesystem.

Container definitions

mysecureshellThe mysecureshell container can be used to provide an sftp service with multiple users (although the files are owned by the same UID and GID) using standalone containers (launched with docker or podman) or in an orchestration system like kubernetes, as we are going to do here. The image is generated using the following Dockerfile:

ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.16.2
FROM alpine:$ALPINE_VERSION as builder
LABEL maintainer="Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@mixinet.net>"
RUN apk update &&\
 apk add --no-cache alpine-sdk git musl-dev &&\
 git clone https://github.com/sto/mysecureshell.git &&\
 cd mysecureshell &&\
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man\
 --localstatedir=/var --with-shutfile=/var/lib/misc/sftp.shut --with-debug=2 &&\
 make all && make install &&\
 rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
FROM alpine:$ALPINE_VERSION
LABEL maintainer="Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@mixinet.net>"
COPY --from=builder /usr/bin/mysecureshell /usr/bin/mysecureshell
COPY --from=builder /usr/bin/sftp-* /usr/bin/
RUN apk update &&\
 apk add --no-cache openssh shadow pwgen &&\
 sed -i -e "s ^.*\(AuthorizedKeysFile\).*$ \1 /etc/ssh/auth_keys/%u "\
 /etc/ssh/sshd_config &&\
 mkdir /etc/ssh/auth_keys &&\
 cat /dev/null > /etc/motd &&\
 add-shell '/usr/bin/mysecureshell' &&\
 rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
COPY bin/* /usr/local/bin/
COPY etc/sftp_config /etc/ssh/
COPY entrypoint.sh /
EXPOSE 22
VOLUME /sftp
ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["server"]

The /etc/sftp_config file is used to configure the mysecureshell server to have all the user homes under /sftp/data, only allow them to see the files under their home directories as if it were at the root of the server and close idle connections after 5m of inactivity:

etc/sftp_config

# Default mysecureshell configuration
<Default>
   # All users will have access their home directory under /sftp/data
   Home /sftp/data/$USER
   # Log to a file inside /sftp/logs/ (only works when the directory exists)
   LogFile /sftp/logs/mysecureshell.log
   # Force users to stay in their home directory
   StayAtHome true
   # Hide Home PATH, it will be shown as /
   VirtualChroot true
   # Hide real file/directory owner (just change displayed permissions)
   DirFakeUser true
   # Hide real file/directory group (just change displayed permissions)
   DirFakeGroup true
   # We do not want users to keep forever their idle connection
   IdleTimeOut 5m
</Default>
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The entrypoint.sh script is the one responsible to prepare the container for the users included on the /secrets/user_pass.txt file (creates the users with their HOME directories under /sftp/data and a /bin/false shell and creates the key files from /secrets/user_keys.txt if available). The script expects a couple of environment variables:

SFTP_UID: UID used to run the daemon and for all the files, it has to be different than 0 (all the files managed by this daemon are going to be owned by the same user and group, even if the remote users are different).
SFTP_GID: GID used to run the daemon and for all the files, it has to be different than 0.

And can use the SSH_PORT and SSH_PARAMS values if present. It also requires the following files (they can be mounted as secrets in kubernetes):

/secrets/host_keys.txt: Text file containing the ssh server keys in mime format; the file is processed using the reformime utility (the one included on busybox) and can be generated using the gen-host-keys script included on the container (it uses ssh-keygen and makemime).
/secrets/user_pass.txt: Text file containing lines of the form username:password_in_clear_text (only the users included on this file are available on the sftp server, in fact in our deployment we use only the scs user for everything).

And optionally can use another one:

/secrets/user_keys.txt: Text file that contains lines of the form username:public_ssh_ed25519_or_rsa_key; the public keys are installed on the server and can be used to log into the sftp server if the username exists on the user_pass.txt file.

The contents of the entrypoint.sh script are:

entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# ---------
# VARIABLES
# ---------
# Expects SSH_UID & SSH_GID on the environment and uses the value of the
# SSH_PORT & SSH_PARAMS variables if present
# SSH_PARAMS
SSH_PARAMS="-D -e -p $ SSH_PORT:=22  $ SSH_PARAMS "
# Fixed values
# DIRECTORIES
HOME_DIR="/sftp/data"
CONF_FILES_DIR="/secrets"
AUTH_KEYS_PATH="/etc/ssh/auth_keys"
# FILES
HOST_KEYS="$CONF_FILES_DIR/host_keys.txt"
USER_KEYS="$CONF_FILES_DIR/user_keys.txt"
USER_PASS="$CONF_FILES_DIR/user_pass.txt"
USER_SHELL_CMD="/usr/bin/mysecureshell"
# TYPES
HOST_KEY_TYPES="dsa ecdsa ed25519 rsa"
# ---------
# FUNCTIONS
# ---------
# Validate HOST_KEYS, USER_PASS, SFTP_UID and SFTP_GID
_check_environment()  
  # Check the ssh server keys ... we don't boot if we don't have them
  if [ ! -f "$HOST_KEYS" ]; then
    cat <<EOF
We need the host keys on the '$HOST_KEYS' file to proceed.
Call the 'gen-host-keys' script to create and export them on a mime file.
EOF
    exit 1
  fi
  # Check that we have users ... if we don't we can't continue
  if [ ! -f "$USER_PASS" ]; then
    cat <<EOF
We need at least the '$USER_PASS' file to provision users.
Call the 'gen-users-tar' script to create a tar file to create an archive that
contains public and private keys for users, a 'user_keys.txt' with the public
keys of the users and a 'user_pass.txt' file with random passwords for them 
(pass the list of usernames to it).
EOF
    exit 1
  fi
  # Check SFTP_UID
  if [ -z "$SFTP_UID" ]; then
    echo "The 'SFTP_UID' can't be empty, pass a 'GID'."
    exit 1
  fi
  if [ "$SFTP_UID" -eq "0" ]; then
    echo "The 'SFTP_UID' can't be 0, use a different 'UID'"
    exit 1
  fi
  # Check SFTP_GID
  if [ -z "$SFTP_GID" ]; then
    echo "The 'SFTP_GID' can't be empty, pass a 'GID'."
    exit 1
  fi
  if [ "$SFTP_GID" -eq "0" ]; then
    echo "The 'SFTP_GID' can't be 0, use a different 'GID'"
    exit 1
  fi
 
# Adjust ssh host keys
_setup_host_keys()  
  opwd="$(pwd)"
  tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
  cd "$tmpdir"
  ret="0"
  reformime <"$HOST_KEYS"   ret="1"
  for kt in $HOST_KEY_TYPES; do
    key="ssh_host_$ kt _key"
    pub="ssh_host_$ kt _key.pub"
    if [ ! -f "$key" ]; then
      echo "Missing '$key' file"
      ret="1"
    fi
    if [ ! -f "$pub" ]; then
      echo "Missing '$pub' file"
      ret="1"
    fi
    if [ "$ret" -ne "0" ]; then
      continue
    fi
    cat "$key" >"/etc/ssh/$key"
    chmod 0600 "/etc/ssh/$key"
    chown root:root "/etc/ssh/$key"
    cat "$pub" >"/etc/ssh/$pub"
    chmod 0600 "/etc/ssh/$pub"
    chown root:root "/etc/ssh/$pub"
  done
  cd "$opwd"
  rm -rf "$tmpdir"
  return "$ret"
 
# Create users
_setup_user_pass()  
  opwd="$(pwd)"
  tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
  cd "$tmpdir"
  ret="0"
  [ -d "$HOME_DIR" ]   mkdir "$HOME_DIR"
  # Make sure the data dir can be managed by the sftp user
  chown "$SFTP_UID:$SFTP_GID" "$HOME_DIR"
  # Allow the user (and root) to create directories inside the $HOME_DIR, if
  # we don't allow it the directory creation fails on EFS (AWS)
  chmod 0755 "$HOME_DIR"
  # Create users
  echo "sftp:sftp:$SFTP_UID:$SFTP_GID:::/bin/false" >"newusers.txt"
  sed -n "/^[^#]/   s/:/ /p  " "$USER_PASS"   while read -r _u _p; do
    echo "$_u:$_p:$SFTP_UID:$SFTP_GID::$HOME_DIR/$_u:$USER_SHELL_CMD"
  done >>"newusers.txt"
  newusers --badnames newusers.txt
  # Disable write permission on the directory to forbid remote sftp users to
  # remove their own root dir (they have already done it); we adjust that
  # here to avoid issues with EFS (see before)
  chmod 0555 "$HOME_DIR"
  # Clean up the tmpdir
  cd "$opwd"
  rm -rf "$tmpdir"
  return "$ret"
 
# Adjust user keys
_setup_user_keys()  
  if [ -f "$USER_KEYS" ]; then
    sed -n "/^[^#]/   s/:/ /p  " "$USER_KEYS"   while read -r _u _k; do
      echo "$_k" >>"$AUTH_KEYS_PATH/$_u"
    done
  fi
 
# Main function
exec_sshd()  
  _check_environment
  _setup_host_keys
  _setup_user_pass
  _setup_user_keys
  echo "Running: /usr/sbin/sshd $SSH_PARAMS"
  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
  exec /usr/sbin/sshd -D $SSH_PARAMS
 
# ----
# MAIN
# ----
case "$1" in
"server") exec_sshd ;;
*) exec "$@" ;;
esac
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The container also includes a couple of auxiliary scripts, the first one can be used to generate the host_keys.txt file as follows:

$ docker run --rm stodh/mysecureshell gen-host-keys > host_keys.txt

Where the script is as simple as:

bin/gen-host-keys

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Generate new host keys
ssh-keygen -A >/dev/null
# Replace hostname
sed -i -e 's/@.*$/@mysecureshell/' /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key.pub
# Print in mime format (stdout)
makemime /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
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And there is another script to generate a .tar file that contains auth data for the list of usernames passed to it (the file contains a user_pass.txt file with random passwords for the users, public and private ssh keys for them and the user_keys.txt file that matches the generated keys). To generate a tar file for the user scs we can execute the following:

$ docker run --rm stodh/mysecureshell gen-users-tar scs > /tmp/scs-users.tar

To see the contents and the text inside the user_pass.txt file we can do:

$ tar tvf /tmp/scs-users.tar
-rw-r--r-- root/root        21 2022-09-11 15:55 user_pass.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root       822 2022-09-11 15:55 user_keys.txt
-rw------- root/root       387 2022-09-11 15:55 id_ed25519-scs
-rw-r--r-- root/root        85 2022-09-11 15:55 id_ed25519-scs.pub
-rw------- root/root      3357 2022-09-11 15:55 id_rsa-scs
-rw------- root/root      3243 2022-09-11 15:55 id_rsa-scs.pem
-rw-r--r-- root/root       729 2022-09-11 15:55 id_rsa-scs.pub
$ tar xfO /tmp/scs-users.tar user_pass.txt
scs:20JertRSX2Eaar4x

The source of the script is:

bin/gen-users-tar

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# ---------
# VARIABLES
# ---------
USER_KEYS_FILE="user_keys.txt"
USER_PASS_FILE="user_pass.txt"
# ---------
# MAIN CODE
# ---------
# Generate user passwords and keys, return 1 if no username is received
if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]; then
  return 1
fi
opwd="$(pwd)"
tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
cd "$tmpdir"
for u in "$@"; do
  ssh-keygen -q -a 100 -t ed25519 -f "id_ed25519-$u" -C "$u" -N ""
  ssh-keygen -q -a 100 -b 4096 -t rsa -f "id_rsa-$u" -C "$u" -N ""
  # Legacy RSA private key format
  cp -a "id_rsa-$u" "id_rsa-$u.pem"
  ssh-keygen -q -p -m pem -f "id_rsa-$u.pem" -N "" -P "" >/dev/null
  chmod 0600 "id_rsa-$u.pem"
  echo "$u:$(pwgen -s 16 1)" >>"$USER_PASS_FILE"
  echo "$u:$(cat "id_ed25519-$u.pub")" >>"$USER_KEYS_FILE"
  echo "$u:$(cat "id_rsa-$u.pub")" >>"$USER_KEYS_FILE"
done
tar cf - "$USER_PASS_FILE" "$USER_KEYS_FILE" id_* 2>/dev/null
cd "$opwd"
rm -rf "$tmpdir"
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nginx-scsThe nginx-scs container is generated using the following Dockerfile:

ARG NGINX_VERSION=1.23.1
FROM nginx:$NGINX_VERSION
LABEL maintainer="Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@mixinet.net>"
RUN rm -f /docker-entrypoint.d/*
COPY docker-entrypoint.d/* /docker-entrypoint.d/

Basically we are removing the existing docker-entrypoint.d scripts from the standard image and adding a new one that configures the web server as we want using a couple of environment variables:

AUTH_REQUEST_URI: URL to use for the auth_request, if the variable is not found on the environment auth_request is not used.
HTML_ROOT: Base directory of the web server, if not passed the default /usr/share/nginx/html is used.

Note that if we don t pass the variables everything works as if we were using the original nginx image. The contents of the configuration script are:

docker-entrypoint.d/10-update-default-conf.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Replace the default.conf nginx file by our own version.
set -e
if [ -z "$HTML_ROOT" ]; then
  HTML_ROOT="/usr/share/nginx/html"
fi
if [ "$AUTH_REQUEST_URI" ]; then
  cat >/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf <<EOF
server  
  listen       80;
  server_name  localhost;
  location /  
    auth_request /.auth;
    root  $HTML_ROOT;
    index index.html index.htm;
   
  location /.auth  
    internal;
    proxy_pass $AUTH_REQUEST_URI;
    proxy_pass_request_body off;
    proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
    proxy_set_header X-Original-URI \$request_uri;
   
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html  
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
   
 
EOF
else
  cat >/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf <<EOF
server  
  listen       80;
  server_name  localhost;
  location /  
    root  $HTML_ROOT;
    index index.html index.htm;
   
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html  
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
   
 
EOF
fi
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As we will see later the idea is to use the /sftp/data or /sftp/data/scs folder as the root of the web published by this container and create an Ingress object to provide access to it outside of our kubernetes cluster.

webhook-scsThe webhook-scs container is generated using the following Dockerfile:

ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.16.2
ARG GOLANG_VERSION=alpine3.16
FROM golang:$GOLANG_VERSION AS builder
LABEL maintainer="Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@mixinet.net>"
ENV WEBHOOK_VERSION 2.8.0
ENV WEBHOOK_PR 549
ENV S3FS_VERSION v1.91
WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/adnanh/webhook
RUN apk update &&\
 apk add --no-cache -t build-deps curl libc-dev gcc libgcc patch
RUN curl -L --silent -o webhook.tar.gz\
 https://github.com/adnanh/webhook/archive/$ WEBHOOK_VERSION .tar.gz &&\
 tar xzf webhook.tar.gz --strip 1 &&\
 curl -L --silent -o $ WEBHOOK_PR .patch\
 https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/adnanh/webhook/pull/$ WEBHOOK_PR .patch &&\
 patch -p1 < $ WEBHOOK_PR .patch &&\
 go get -d && \
 go build -o /usr/local/bin/webhook
WORKDIR /src/s3fs-fuse
RUN apk update &&\
 apk add ca-certificates build-base alpine-sdk libcurl automake autoconf\
 libxml2-dev libressl-dev mailcap fuse-dev curl-dev
RUN curl -L --silent -o s3fs.tar.gz\
 https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/archive/refs/tags/$S3FS_VERSION.tar.gz &&\
 tar xzf s3fs.tar.gz --strip 1 &&\
 ./autogen.sh &&\
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local &&\
 make -j && \
 make install
FROM alpine:$ALPINE_VERSION
LABEL maintainer="Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@mixinet.net>"
WORKDIR /webhook
RUN apk update &&\
 apk add --no-cache ca-certificates mailcap fuse libxml2 libcurl libgcc\
 libstdc++ rsync util-linux-misc &&\
 rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
COPY --from=builder /usr/local/bin/webhook /usr/local/bin/webhook
COPY --from=builder /usr/local/bin/s3fs /usr/local/bin/s3fs
COPY entrypoint.sh /
COPY hooks/* ./hooks/
EXPOSE 9000
ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["server"]

Again, we use a multi-stage build because in production we wanted to support a functionality that is not already on the official versions (streaming the command output as a response instead of waiting until the execution ends); this time we build the image applying the PATCH included on this pull request against a released version of the source instead of creating a fork. The entrypoint.sh script is used to generate the webhook configuration file for the existing hooks using environment variables (basically the WEBHOOK_WORKDIR and the *_TOKEN variables) and launch the webhook service:

entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# ---------
# VARIABLES
# ---------
WEBHOOK_BIN="$ WEBHOOK_BIN:-/webhook/hooks "
WEBHOOK_YML="$ WEBHOOK_YML:-/webhook/scs.yml "
WEBHOOK_OPTS="$ WEBHOOK_OPTS:--verbose "
# ---------
# FUNCTIONS
# ---------
print_du_yml()  
  cat <<EOF
- id: du
  execute-command: '$WEBHOOK_BIN/du.sh'
  command-working-directory: '$WORKDIR'
  response-headers:
  - name: 'Content-Type'
    value: 'application/json'
  http-methods: ['GET']
  include-command-output-in-response: true
  include-command-output-in-response-on-error: true
  pass-arguments-to-command:
  - source: 'url'
    name: 'path'
  pass-environment-to-command:
  - source: 'string'
    envname: 'OUTPUT_FORMAT'
    name: 'json'
EOF
 
print_hardlink_yml()  
  cat <<EOF
- id: hardlink
  execute-command: '$WEBHOOK_BIN/hardlink.sh'
  command-working-directory: '$WORKDIR'
  http-methods: ['GET']
  include-command-output-in-response: true
  include-command-output-in-response-on-error: true
EOF
 
print_s3sync_yml()  
  cat <<EOF
- id: s3sync
  execute-command: '$WEBHOOK_BIN/s3sync.sh'
  command-working-directory: '$WORKDIR'
  http-methods: ['POST']
  include-command-output-in-response: true
  include-command-output-in-response-on-error: true
  pass-environment-to-command:
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'AWS_KEY'
    name: 'aws.key'
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'AWS_SECRET_KEY'
    name: 'aws.secret_key'
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'S3_BUCKET'
    name: 's3.bucket'
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'S3_REGION'
    name: 's3.region'
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'S3_PATH'
    name: 's3.path'
  - source: 'payload'
    envname: 'SCS_PATH'
    name: 'scs.path'
  stream-command-output: true
EOF
 
print_token_yml()  
  if [ "$1" ]; then
    cat << EOF
  trigger-rule:
    match:
      type: 'value'
      value: '$1'
      parameter:
        source: 'header'
        name: 'X-Webhook-Token'
EOF
  fi
 
exec_webhook()  
  # Validate WORKDIR
  if [ -z "$WEBHOOK_WORKDIR" ]; then
    echo "Must define the WEBHOOK_WORKDIR variable!" >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  WORKDIR="$(realpath "$WEBHOOK_WORKDIR" 2>/dev/null)"   true
  if [ ! -d "$WORKDIR" ]; then
    echo "The WEBHOOK_WORKDIR '$WEBHOOK_WORKDIR' is not a directory!" >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  # Get TOKENS, if the DU_TOKEN or HARDLINK_TOKEN is defined that is used, if
  # not if the COMMON_TOKEN that is used and in other case no token is checked
  # (that is the default)
  DU_TOKEN="$ DU_TOKEN:-$COMMON_TOKEN "
  HARDLINK_TOKEN="$ HARDLINK_TOKEN:-$COMMON_TOKEN "
  S3_TOKEN="$ S3_TOKEN:-$COMMON_TOKEN "
  # Create webhook configuration
    
    print_du_yml
    print_token_yml "$DU_TOKEN"
    echo ""
    print_hardlink_yml
    print_token_yml "$HARDLINK_TOKEN"
    echo ""
    print_s3sync_yml
    print_token_yml "$S3_TOKEN"
   >"$WEBHOOK_YML"
  # Run the webhook command
  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
  exec webhook -hooks "$WEBHOOK_YML" $WEBHOOK_OPTS
 
# ----
# MAIN
# ----
case "$1" in
"server") exec_webhook ;;
*) exec "$@" ;;
esac

The entrypoint.sh script generates the configuration file for the webhook server calling functions that print a yaml section for each hook and optionally adds rules to validate access to them comparing the value of a X-Webhook-Token header against predefined values. The expected token values are taken from environment variables, we can define a token variable for each hook (DU_TOKEN, HARDLINK_TOKEN or S3_TOKEN) and a fallback value (COMMON_TOKEN); if no token variable is defined for a hook no check is done and everybody can call it. The Hook Definition documentation explains the options you can use for each hook, the ones we have right now do the following:

du: runs on the $WORKDIR directory, passes as first argument to the script the value of the path query parameter and sets the variable OUTPUT_FORMAT to the fixed value json (we use that to print the output of the script in JSON format instead of text).
hardlink: runs on the $WORKDIR directory and takes no parameters.
s3sync: runs on the $WORKDIR directory and sets a lot of environment variables from values read from the JSON encoded payload sent by the caller (all the values must be sent by the caller even if they are assigned an empty value, if they are missing the hook fails without calling the script); we also set the stream-command-output value to true to make the script show its output as it is working (we patched the webhook source to be able to use this option).

The du hook scriptThe du hook script code checks if the argument passed is a directory, computes its size using the du command and prints the results in text format or as a JSON dictionary:

hooks/du.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Script to print disk usage for a PATH inside the scs folder
# ---------
# FUNCTIONS
# ---------
print_error()  
  if [ "$OUTPUT_FORMAT" = "json" ]; then
    echo " \"error\":\"$*\" "
  else
    echo "$*" >&2
  fi
  exit 1
 
usage()  
  if [ "$OUTPUT_FORMAT" = "json" ]; then
    echo " \"error\":\"Pass arguments as '?path=XXX\" "
  else
    echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") PATH" >&2
  fi
  exit 1
 
# ----
# MAIN
# ----
if [ "$#" -eq "0" ]   [ -z "$1" ]; then
  usage
fi
if [ "$1" = "." ]; then
  DU_PATH="./"
else
  DU_PATH="$(find . -name "$1" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1)"   true
fi
if [ -z "$DU_PATH" ]   [ ! -d "$DU_PATH/." ]; then
  print_error "The provided PATH ('$1') is not a directory"
fi
# Print disk usage in bytes for the given PATH
OUTPUT="$(du -b -s "$DU_PATH")"
if [ "$OUTPUT_FORMAT" = "json" ]; then
  # Format output as  "path":"PATH","bytes":"BYTES" 
  echo "$OUTPUT"  
    sed -e "s%^\(.*\)\t.*/\(.*\)$% \"path\":\"\2\",\"bytes\":\"\1\" %"  
    tr -d '\n'
else
  # Print du output as is
  echo "$OUTPUT"
fi
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The hardlink hook scriptThe hardlink hook script is really simple, it just runs the util-linux version of the hardlink command on its working directory:

hooks/hardlink.sh

#!/bin/sh
hardlink --ignore-time --maximize .

We use that to reduce the size of the stored content; to manage versions of files and folders we keep each version on a separate directory and when one or more files are not changed this script makes them hardlinks to the same file on disc, reducing the space used on disk.

The s3sync hook scriptThe s3sync hook script uses the s3fs tool to mount a bucket and synchronise data between a folder inside the bucket and a directory on the filesystem using rsync; all values needed to execute the task are taken from environment variables:

hooks/s3sync.sh

#!/bin/ash
set -euo pipefail
set -o errexit
set -o errtrace
# Functions
finish()  
  ret="$1"
  echo ""
  echo "Script exit code: $ret"
  exit "$ret"
 
# Check variables
if [ -z "$AWS_KEY" ]   [ -z "$AWS_SECRET_KEY" ]   [ -z "$S3_BUCKET" ]  
  [ -z "$S3_PATH" ]   [ -z "$SCS_PATH" ]; then
  [ "$AWS_KEY" ]   echo "Set the AWS_KEY environment variable"
  [ "$AWS_SECRET_KEY" ]   echo "Set the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable"
  [ "$S3_BUCKET" ]   echo "Set the S3_BUCKET environment variable"
  [ "$S3_PATH" ]   echo "Set the S3_PATH environment variable"
  [ "$SCS_PATH" ]   echo "Set the SCS_PATH environment variable"
  finish 1
fi
if [ "$S3_REGION" ] && [ "$S3_REGION" != "us-east-1" ]; then
  EP_URL="endpoint=$S3_REGION,url=https://s3.$S3_REGION.amazonaws.com"
else
  EP_URL="endpoint=us-east-1"
fi
# Prepare working directory
WORK_DIR="$(mktemp -p "$HOME" -d)"
MNT_POINT="$WORK_DIR/s3data"
PASSWD_S3FS="$WORK_DIR/.passwd-s3fs"
# Check the moutpoint
if [ ! -d "$MNT_POINT" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$MNT_POINT"
elif mountpoint "$MNT_POINT"; then
  echo "There is already something mounted on '$MNT_POINT', aborting!"
  finish 1
fi
# Create password file
touch "$PASSWD_S3FS"
chmod 0400 "$PASSWD_S3FS"
echo "$AWS_KEY:$AWS_SECRET_KEY" >"$PASSWD_S3FS"
# Mount s3 bucket as a filesystem
s3fs -o dbglevel=info,retries=5 -o "$EP_URL" -o "passwd_file=$PASSWD_S3FS" \
  "$S3_BUCKET" "$MNT_POINT"
echo "Mounted bucket '$S3_BUCKET' on '$MNT_POINT'"
# Remove the password file, just in case
rm -f "$PASSWD_S3FS"
# Check source PATH
ret="0"
SRC_PATH="$MNT_POINT/$S3_PATH"
if [ ! -d "$SRC_PATH" ]; then
  echo "The S3_PATH '$S3_PATH' can't be found!"
  ret=1
fi
# Compute SCS_UID & SCS_GID (by default based on the working directory owner)
SCS_UID="$ SCS_UID:=$(stat -c "%u" "." 2>/dev/null) "   true
SCS_GID="$ SCS_GID:=$(stat -c "%g" "." 2>/dev/null) "   true
# Check destination PATH
DST_PATH="./$SCS_PATH"
if [ "$ret" -eq "0" ] && [ -d "$DST_PATH" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$DST_PATH"   ret="$?"
fi
# Copy using rsync
if [ "$ret" -eq "0" ]; then
  rsync -rlptv --chown="$SCS_UID:$SCS_GID" --delete --stats \
    "$SRC_PATH/" "$DST_PATH/"   ret="$?"
fi
# Unmount the S3 bucket
umount -f "$MNT_POINT"
echo "Called umount for '$MNT_POINT'"
# Remove mount point dir
rmdir "$MNT_POINT"
# Remove WORK_DIR
rmdir "$WORK_DIR"
# We are done
finish "$ret"
# vim: ts=2:sw=2:et:ai:sts=2

Deployment objectsThe system is deployed as a StatefulSet with one replica. Our production deployment is done on AWS and to be able to scale we use EFS for our PersistenVolume; the idea is that the volume has no size limit, its AccessMode can be set to ReadWriteMany and we can mount it from multiple instances of the Pod without issues, even if they are in different availability zones. For development we use k3d and we are also able to scale the StatefulSet for testing because we use a ReadWriteOnce PVC, but it points to a hostPath that is backed up by a folder that is mounted on all the compute nodes, so in reality Pods in different k3d nodes use the same folder on the host.

secrets.yamlThe secrets file contains the files used by the mysecureshell container that can be generated using kubernetes pods as follows (we are only creating the scs user):

$ kubectl run "mysecureshell" --restart='Never' --quiet --rm --stdin \
  --image "stodh/mysecureshell:latest" -- gen-host-keys >"./host_keys.txt"
$ kubectl run "mysecureshell" --restart='Never' --quiet --rm --stdin \
  --image "stodh/mysecureshell:latest" -- gen-users-tar scs >"./users.tar"

Once we have the files we can generate the secrets.yaml file as follows:

$ tar xf ./users.tar user_keys.txt user_pass.txt
$ kubectl --dry-run=client -o yaml create secret generic "scs-secret" \
  --from-file="host_keys.txt=host_keys.txt" \
  --from-file="user_keys.txt=user_keys.txt" \
  --from-file="user_pass.txt=user_pass.txt" > ./secrets.yaml

The resulting secrets.yaml will look like the following file (the base64 would match the content of the files, of course):

secrets.yaml

apiVersion: v1
data:
  host_keys.txt: TWlt...
  user_keys.txt: c2Nz...
  user_pass.txt: c2Nz...
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: scs-secret

pvc.yamlThe persistent volume claim for a simple deployment (one with only one instance of the statefulSet) can be as simple as this:

pvc.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: scs-pvc
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 8Gi

On this definition we don t set the storageClassName to use the default one.

Volumes in our development environment (k3d)In our development deployment we create the following PersistentVolume as required by the Local Persistence Volume Static Provisioner (note that the /volumes/scs-pv has to be created by hand, in our k3d system we mount the same host directory on the /volumes path of all the nodes and create the scs-pv directory by hand before deploying the persistent volume):

k3d-pv.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: scs-pv
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 8Gi
  volumeMode: Filesystem
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Delete
  claimRef:
    name: scs-pvc
  storageClassName: local-storage
  local:
    path: /volumes/scs-pv
  nodeAffinity:
    required:
      nodeSelectorTerms:
      - matchExpressions:
        - key: node.kubernetes.io/instance-type
          operator: In
          values:
          - k3s

And to make sure that everything works as expected we update the PVC definition to add the right storageClassName:

k3d-pvc.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: scs-pvc
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 8Gi
  storageClassName: local-storage

Volumes in our production environment (aws)In the production deployment we don t create the PersistentVolume (we are using the aws-efs-csi-driver which supports Dynamic Provisioning) but we add the storageClassName (we set it to the one mapped to the EFS driver, i.e. efs-sc) and set ReadWriteMany as the accessMode:

efs-pvc.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: scs-pvc
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 8Gi
  storageClassName: efs-sc

statefulset.yamlThe definition of the statefulSet is as follows:

statefulset.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: scs
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  serviceName: scs
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: scs
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: scs
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: stodh/nginx-scs:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
          name: http
        env:
        - name: AUTH_REQUEST_URI
          value: ""
        - name: HTML_ROOT
          value: /sftp/data
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /sftp
          name: scs-datadir
      - name: mysecureshell
        image: stodh/mysecureshell:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 22
          name: ssh
        securityContext:
          capabilities:
            add:
            - IPC_OWNER
        env:
        - name: SFTP_UID
          value: '2020'
        - name: SFTP_GID
          value: '2020'
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /secrets
          name: scs-file-secrets
          readOnly: true
        - mountPath: /sftp
          name: scs-datadir
      - name: webhook
        image: stodh/webhook-scs:latest
        securityContext:
          privileged: true
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9000
          name: webhook-http
        env:
        - name: WEBHOOK_WORKDIR
          value: /sftp/data/scs
        volumeMounts:
        - name: devfuse
          mountPath: /dev/fuse
        - mountPath: /sftp
          name: scs-datadir
      volumes:
      - name: devfuse
        hostPath:
          path: /dev/fuse
      - name: scs-file-secrets
        secret:
          secretName: scs-secrets
      - name: scs-datadir
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: scs-pvc

Notes about the containers:

nginx: As this is an example the web server is not using an AUTH_REQUEST_URI and uses the /sftp/data directory as the root of the web (to get to the files uploaded for the scs user we will need to use /scs/ as a prefix on the URLs).
mysecureshell: We are adding the IPC_OWNER capability to the container to be able to use some of the sftp-* commands inside it, but they are not really needed, so adding the capability is optional.
webhook: We are launching this container in privileged mode to be able to use the s3fs-fuse, as it will not work otherwise for now (see this kubernetes issue); if the functionality is not needed the container can be executed with regular privileges; besides, as we are not enabling public access to this service we don t define *_TOKEN variables (if required the values should be read from a Secret object).

Notes about the volumes:

the devfuse volume is only needed if we plan to use the s3fs command on the webhook container, if not we can remove the volume definition and its mounts.

service.yamlTo be able to access the different services on the statefulset we publish the relevant ports using the following Service object:

service.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: scs-svc
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  ports:
  - name: ssh
    port: 22
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 22
  - name: http
    port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 80
  - name: webhook-http
    port: 9000
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 9000
  selector:
    app: scs

ingress.yamlTo download the scs files from the outside we can add an ingress object like the following (the definition is for testing using the localhost name):

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: scs-ingress
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: scs
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - host: 'localhost'
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /scs
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: scs-svc
            port:
              number: 80

DeploymentTo deploy the statefulSet we create a namespace and apply the object definitions shown before:

$ kubectl create namespace scs-demo
namespace/scs-demo created
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f secrets.yaml
secret/scs-secrets created
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f pvc.yaml
persistentvolumeclaim/scs-pvc created
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f statefulset.yaml
statefulset.apps/scs created
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f service.yaml
service/scs-svc created
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f ingress.yaml
ingress.networking.k8s.io/scs-ingress created

Once the objects are deployed we can check that all is working using kubectl:

$ kubectl  -n scs-demo get all,secrets,ingress
NAME        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/scs-0   3/3     Running   0          24s
NAME            TYPE       CLUSTER-IP  EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)                  AGE
service/scs-svc ClusterIP  10.43.0.47  <none>       22/TCP,80/TCP,9000/TCP   21s

NAME                   READY   AGE
statefulset.apps/scs   1/1     24s
NAME                         TYPE                                  DATA   AGE
secret/default-token-mwcd7   kubernetes.io/service-account-token   3      53s
secret/scs-secrets           Opaque                                3      39s
NAME                                   CLASS  HOSTS      ADDRESS     PORTS   AGE
ingress.networking.k8s.io/scs-ingress  nginx  localhost  172.21.0.5  80      17s

At this point we are ready to use the system.

Usage examples

File uploadsAs previously mentioned in our system the idea is to use the sftp server from other Pods, but to test the system we are going to do a kubectl port-forward and connect to the server using our host client and the password we have generated (it is on the user_pass.txt file, inside the users.tar archive):

$ kubectl -n scs-demo port-forward service/scs-svc 2020:22 &
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:2020 -> 22
Forwarding from [::1]:2020 -> 22
$ PF_PID=$!
$ sftp -P 2020 scs@127.0.0.1                                                 1
Handling connection for 2020
The authenticity of host '[127.0.0.1]:2020 ([127.0.0.1]:2020)' can't be \
  established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:eHNwCnyLcSSuVXXiLKeGraw0FT/4Bb/yjfqTstt+088.
This key is not known by any other names
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added '[127.0.0.1]:2020' (ED25519) to the list of known \
  hosts.
scs@127.0.0.1's password: **********
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
sftp> ls -la
drwxr-xr-x    2 sftp     sftp         4096 Sep 25 14:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x    3 sftp     sftp         4096 Sep 25 14:36 ..
sftp> !date -R > /tmp/date.txt                                               2
sftp> put /tmp/date.txt .
Uploading /tmp/date.txt to /date.txt
date.txt                                      100%   32    27.8KB/s   00:00
sftp> ls -l
-rw-r--r--    1 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt
sftp> ln date.txt date.txt.1                                                 3
sftp> ls -l
-rw-r--r--    2 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt
-rw-r--r--    2 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt.1
sftp> put /tmp/date.txt date.txt.2                                           4
Uploading /tmp/date.txt to /date.txt.2
date.txt                                      100%   32    27.8KB/s   00:00
sftp> ls -l                                                                  5
-rw-r--r--    2 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt
-rw-r--r--    2 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt.1
-rw-r--r--    1 sftp     sftp           32 Sep 25 15:21 date.txt.2
sftp> exit
$ kill "$PF_PID"
[1]  + terminated  kubectl -n scs-demo port-forward service/scs-svc 2020:22

We connect to the sftp service on the forwarded port with the scs user.
We put a file we have created on the host on the directory.
We do a hard link of the uploaded file.
We put a second copy of the file we created locally.
On the file list we can see that the two first files have two hardlinks

File retrievalsIf our ingress is configured right we can download the date.txt file from the URL http://localhost/scs/date.txt:
$ curl -s http://localhost/scs/date.txt Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:21:51 +0200

Use of the webhook containerTo finish this post we are going to show how we can call the hooks directly, from a CronJob and from a Job.
Direct script call (du)In our deployment the direct calls are done from other Pods, to simulate it we are going to do a port-forward and call the script with an existing PATH (the root directory) and a bad one:
$ kubectl -n scs-demo port-forward service/scs-svc 9000:9000 >/dev/null & $ PF_PID=$! $ JSON="$(curl -s "http://localhost:9000/hooks/du?path=.")" $ echo $JSON "path":"","bytes":"4160" $ JSON="$(curl -s "http://localhost:9000/hooks/du?path=foo")" $ echo $JSON "error":"The provided PATH ('foo') is not a directory" $ kill $PF_PID
As we only have files on the base directory we print the disk usage of the . PATH and the output is in json format because we export OUTPUT_FORMAT with the value json on the webhook configuration.

Cronjobs (hardlink)As explained before, the webhook container can be used to run cronjobs; the following one uses an alpine container to call the hardlink script each minute (that setup is for testing, obviously):
webhook-cronjob.yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1 kind: CronJob metadata: name: hardlink labels: cronjob: 'hardlink' spec: schedule: "* */1 * * *" concurrencyPolicy: Replace jobTemplate: spec: template: metadata: labels: cronjob: 'hardlink' spec: containers: - name: hardlink-cronjob image: alpine:latest command: ["wget", "-q", "-O-", "http://scs-svc:9000/hooks/hardlink"] restartPolicy: Never
The following console session shows how we create the object, allow a couple of executions and remove it (in production we keep it running but once a day, not each minute):
$ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f webhook-cronjob.yaml 1 cronjob.batch/hardlink created $ kubectl -n scs-demo get pods -l "cronjob=hardlink" -w 2 NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE hardlink-27735351-zvpnb 0/1 Pending 0 0s hardlink-27735351-zvpnb 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s hardlink-27735351-zvpnb 0/1 Completed 0 2s ^C $ kubectl -n scs-demo logs pod/hardlink-27735351-zvpnb 3 Mode: real Method: sha256 Files: 3 Linked: 1 files Compared: 0 xattrs Compared: 1 files Saved: 32 B Duration: 0.000220 seconds $ sleep 60 $ kubectl -n scs-demo get pods -l "cronjob=hardlink" 4 NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE hardlink-27735351-zvpnb 0/1 Completed 0 83s hardlink-27735352-br5rn 0/1 Completed 0 23s $ kubectl -n scs-demo logs pod/hardlink-27735352-br5rn 5 Mode: real Method: sha256 Files: 3 Linked: 0 files Compared: 0 xattrs Compared: 0 files Saved: 0 B Duration: 0.000070 seconds $ kubectl -n scs-demo delete -f webhook-cronjob.yaml 6 cronjob.batch "hardlink" deleted
This command creates the cronjob object.
This checks the pods with our cronjob label, we interrupt it once we see that the first run has been completed.
With this command we see the output of the execution, as this is the fist execution we see that date.txt.2 has been replaced by a hardlink (the summary does not name the file, but it is the only option knowing the contents from the original upload).
After waiting a little bit we check the pods executed again to get the name of the latest one.
The log now shows that nothing was done.
As this is a demo, we delete the cronjob.

Jobs (s3sync)The following job can be used to synchronise the contents of a directory in a S3 bucket with the SCS Filesystem:
job.yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1 kind: Job metadata: name: s3sync labels: cronjob: 's3sync' spec: template: metadata: labels: cronjob: 's3sync' spec: containers: - name: s3sync-job image: alpine:latest command: - "wget" - "-q" - "--header" - "Content-Type: application/json" - "--post-file" - "/secrets/s3sync.json" - "-O-" - "http://scs-svc:9000/hooks/s3sync" volumeMounts: - mountPath: /secrets name: job-secrets readOnly: true restartPolicy: Never volumes: - name: job-secrets secret: secretName: webhook-job-secrets
The file with parameters for the script must be something like this:
s3sync.json
"aws": "key": "********************", "secret_key": "****************************************" , "s3": "region": "eu-north-1", "bucket": "blogops-test", "path": "test" , "scs": "path": "test"
Once we have both files we can run the Job as follows:
$ kubectl -n scs-demo create secret generic webhook-job-secrets \ 1 --from-file="s3sync.json=s3sync.json" secret/webhook-job-secrets created $ kubectl -n scs-demo apply -f webhook-job.yaml 2 job.batch/s3sync created $ kubectl -n scs-demo get pods -l "cronjob=s3sync" 3 NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE s3sync-zx2cj 0/1 Completed 0 12s $ kubectl -n scs-demo logs s3sync-zx2cj 4 Mounted bucket 's3fs-test' on '/root/tmp.jiOjaF/s3data' sending incremental file list created directory ./test ./ kyso.png Number of files: 2 (reg: 1, dir: 1) Number of created files: 2 (reg: 1, dir: 1) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 1 Total file size: 15,075 bytes Total transferred file size: 15,075 bytes Literal data: 15,075 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 0 File list generation time: 0.147 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 15,183 Total bytes received: 74 sent 15,183 bytes received 74 bytes 30,514.00 bytes/sec total size is 15,075 speedup is 0.99 Called umount for '/root/tmp.jiOjaF/s3data' Script exit code: 0 $ kubectl -n scs-demo delete -f webhook-job.yaml 5 job.batch "s3sync" deleted $ kubectl -n scs-demo delete secrets webhook-job-secrets 6 secret "webhook-job-secrets" deleted
Here we create the webhook-job-secrets secret that contains the s3sync.json file.
This command runs the job.
Checking the label cronjob=s3sync we get the Pods executed by the job.
Here we print the logs of the completed job.
Once we are finished we remove the Job.
And also the secret.

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