Automating setup of a simple bucket backend

[hglynn]

How can I automate the mounting of a cloud storage bucket and a few other config tweaks?

Right now, I can install and run, and do basic setup including admin for SFTPGO on Google Cloud.
I do this via terraform and cloud-init.

I can setup the bucket on the webgui correctly, it uses instance creds, i can sftp files inbound and they appear 👍

When I export / backup the config, the config files have different sections that are not mentioned in the sftpgo.json file/docs.

Can i add a fragment to the sftpgo.json file or can i feed in something else that lands in the config DB?

[hglynn]

OK I got a chance to spend a bit more time looking at this and found a solution

1. Spin up the sftpgo server and do a backup of the config sessions to get a largely empty skeleton

2. I wrote the skeleton file during "runcmd" of cloud-init to a temp file, replacing hardcodes with terraform vars

3. Also in your runcmd cloud-init script, set SFTPGO_LOADDATA_FROM and SFTPGO_LOADDATA_MODE env vars

The equivalent command line if doing it manually is :
sftpgo initprovider --loaddata-mode 0 --loaddata-from /root/sftpgo-initial-config.json

I'm still having a bit of trouble with the default admin password as a result of the (re-)init provider but I am sure I will figure that out