README.md

Terraform module designed to easily backup EFS filesystems to S3 using DataPipeline.

The workflow is simple:

• Periodically launch resource (EC2 instance) based on schedule
• Execute the shell command defined in the activity on the instance
• Sync data from Production EFS to S3 Bucket by using aws-cli
• The execution log of the activity is stored in S3
• Publish the success or failure of the activity to an SNS topic
• Automatically rotate the backups using S3 lifecycle rule

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Usage

Include this module in your existing terraform code:

module "efs_backup" {
  source = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-efs-backup.git?ref=master"

  name                               = "${var.name}"
  stage                              = "${var.stage}"
  namespace                          = "${var.namespace}"
  vpc_id                             = "${var.vpc_id}"
  efs_mount_target_id                = "${var.efs_mount_target_id}"
  use_ip_address                     = "false"
  noncurrent_version_expiration_days = "${var.noncurrent_version_expiration_days}"
  ssh_key_pair                       = "${var.ssh_key_pair}"
  datapipeline_config                = "${var.datapipeline_config}"
  modify_security_group              = "true"
}

output "efs_backup_security_group" {
  value = "${module.efs_backup.security_group_id}"
}

Integration with EFS

To enable connectivity between the DataPipeline instances and the EFS, use one of the following methods to configure Security Groups:

1. Explicitly add the DataPipeline SG (the output of this module security_group_id) to the list of the ingress rules of the EFS SG. For example:

module "elastic_beanstalk_environment" {
  source     = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-elastic-beanstalk-environment.git?ref=master"
  namespace  = "${var.namespace}"
  name       = "${var.name}"
  stage      = "${var.stage}"
  delimiter  = "${var.delimiter}"
  attributes = ["${compact(concat(var.attributes, list("eb-env")))}"]
  tags       = "${var.tags}"

  # ..............................
}

module "efs" {
  source     = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-efs.git?ref=tmaster"
  namespace  = "${var.namespace}"
  name       = "${var.name}"
  stage      = "${var.stage}"
  delimiter  = "${var.delimiter}"
  attributes = ["${compact(concat(var.attributes, list("efs")))}"]
  tags       = "${var.tags}"

  # Allow EB/EC2 instances and DataPipeline instances to connect to the EFS
  security_groups = ["${module.elastic_beanstalk_environment.security_group_id}", "${module.efs_backup.security_group_id}"]
}

module "efs_backup" {
  source     = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-efs-backup.git?ref=master"
  name       = "${var.name}"
  stage      = "${var.stage}"
  namespace  = "${var.namespace}"
  delimiter  = "${var.delimiter}"
  attributes = ["${compact(concat(var.attributes, list("efs-backup")))}"]
  tags       = "${var.tags}"
  
  # Important to set it to `false` since we added the `DataPipeline` SG (output of the `efs_backup` module) to the `security_groups` of the `efs` module
  # See NOTE below for more information
  modify_security_group = "false"

  # ..............................
}

2. Set modify_security_group attribute to true so the module will modify the EFS SG to allow the DataPipeline to connect to the EFS

NOTE: Do not mix these two methods together. Terraform does not support using a Security Group with in-line rules in conjunction with any Security Group Rule resources. https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/security_group_rule.html

NOTE on Security Groups and Security Group Rules: Terraform currently provides both a standalone Security Group Rule resource (a single ingress or egress rule), and a Security Group resource with ingress and egress rules defined in-line. At this time you cannot use a Security Group with in-line rules in conjunction with any Security Group Rule resources. Doing so will cause a conflict of rule settings and will overwrite rules.

Requirements

No requirements.

Providers

Modules

Resources

Inputs

{
  "email": "",
  "instance_type": "t2.micro",
  "period": "24 hours",
  "timeout": "60 Minutes"
}

Outputs

Related Projects

Check out these related projects.

• terraform-aws-efs - Terraform Module to define an EFS Filesystem (aka NFS)
• terraform-aws-efs-cloudwatch-sns-alarms - Terraform module that configures CloudWatch SNS alerts for EFS

References

For additional context, refer to some of these links.

• datapipeline-efs-backup-demo - Thanks for inspiration

✨ Contributing

This project is under active development, and we encourage contributions from our community.

Many thanks to our outstanding contributors:

For 🐛 bug reports & feature requests, please use the issue tracker.

In general, PRs are welcome. We follow the typical "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.

1. Review our Code of Conduct and Contributor Guidelines.
2. Fork the repo on GitHub
3. Clone the project to your own machine
4. Commit changes to your own branch
5. Push your work back up to your fork
6. Submit a Pull Request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest changes from "upstream" before making a pull request!

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