yujinqiu / ebs-snapshooter

Python script to snapshot all your aws-ebs volumes

EBS-SnapShooter

EBS-SnapShooter is a python script based on boto2, that creates daily, weekly or monthly snapshots for all your aws ebs volumes.

Requirements:

• boto2 - Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services

To install requirements :

(env)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

And of course EBS-Snapshooter itself is open source on GitHub.

How to run

• Edit ebs-snpshooter.py file with your aws api creadentials

• And just run the script ebs-snpshooter.py

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<aws-access-key> -e AWS_SECRET_KEY=<aws-secret-key> & python ebs-snapshooter.py

You can also run it within docker container. Go to --> https://quay.io/repository/smile/ebs-snapshooter

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Run it as Kubernetes Job:

To run it as a Kubernetes Job all you need is to base64 your secrets within manifests/secrets.yaml. Note that aws-sns-arn is optional if you want to create AWS SNS Notifications.

apiVersion: v1
type: Opaque
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: ebs-snapshooter-seretes
data:
  aws-acces-key-id: <base64 encoded aws-access-key-id>
  aws-secret-acces-key: <base64 encoded aws-secret-acces-key>
  aws-sns-arn: <base64 encoded aws-sns-arn>

Create secrets and job:

kubectl create -f manifests/secrets.yaml
kubectl create -f manifests/job.yaml

License

EBS-SnapShooter is BSD-licensed