Today I wanted to automate the upload of some code to a new Amazon EC2 instance. I’ve been scripting the rest of the job using Boto but when I was lazily looking for an example of how to do SFTP with Boto there wasn’t anything obvious in the first few pages of Google’s results. So, here’s the snippet for any other lazy coders out there:
import boto.manage.cmdshell def upload_file(instance, key, username, local_filepath, remote_filepath): """ Upload a file to a remote directory using SFTP. All parameters except for "instance" are strings. The instance parameter should be a boto.ec2.instance.Instance object. instance An EC2 instance to upload the files to. key The file path for a valid SSH key which can be used to log in to the EC2 machine. username The username to log in as. local_filepath The path to the file to upload. remote_filepath The path where the file should be uploaded to. """ ssh_client = boto.manage.cmdshell.sshclient_from_instance( instance, key, user_name=username ) ssh_client.put_file(local_filepath, remote_filepath)
Boto depends on paramiko to handle the SSH parts, so you’ll need that installed too.