syseng-project.md

Systems Engineer Project

SFTP watcher

Using Docker, and other tools of your choice, your task is to build a simple SFTP server & notification system, by combining two containers:

• Container A runs the SFTP server
• Container B runs a script or service that monitors the directory served by Container A for new files, and prints their path to STDOUT

Rules

• Both services (SFTP and the watcher) need to live in separate containers
• You are free to use an existing Docker image for the SFTP server as your starting point (e.g https://github.com/atmoz/sftp)
• You are free to setup the Docker container for the watcher service however you'd like, but you must build it yourself:
  • Pick any language you're comfortable with (Bash is fine too)
  • You are free to use a base Docker image for the language you're using as the starting point (e.g https://hub.docker.com/_/ruby/ if you were to use ruby)
• Use Docker volumes to share a directory between the SFTP and watcher containers
• The watcher service should print the full path of new files in the directory (from the time the service starts)
• The project should be able to be started from a single command
  • You may write your own starter script, use docker-compose, or other tools of your choosing
• The SFTP service should accept the following credentials to connect:
  • username: impraise
  • password: impraise
• Remember to document your Dockerfile(s) and other components of your project appropriately!
• We expect the submitted code to be production ready wherever feasible.
  IMPORTANT any areas where your project falls short of production readiness, please submit a short note explaining the steps you'd take to make it so.