saikovvuri / sftponazure

Deploy a SFTP service based on Azure Container Instance and Azure File Shares

SFTP server on Azure

Deploy a SFTP server running as a container in an Azure Container Instance with Azure File Shares as the persistent storage

Note: This is a temporary proof of concept

Deployment Steps via Az CLI

az group create --name <resourcegroup> --location <location>
az group deployment create --resource-group <resourcegroup> --template-file <template.json>

Deployment results

• Template creates two users, with name and password provided as parameters
• Individual file shares will be created per user, which are bind mounted to container instance

Testing

• use a SFTP client like WinSCP
• use Container Instance's public IP as hostname
• use username/password for the 2 users to login and view/upload artifacts
• validate on azure file shares

Future roadmap

• Supply list of users in config file and map to /etc/sftp/users.conf
• Users should use more secure way to login in like SSH keys. Mount public keys in the user's .ssh/keys directory

sftponazure's Issues

Supplying a list of users

In your Future roadmap you talked about supplying a list of users in config file and map it to /etc/sftp/users.conf

Do you have any idea about how I can do that in Azure: How to specify the path of the file in the template and whether to put the credential file in the same file share.

Thank you.