cloudnative-pg / cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud
[Feature request] Support for S3 SSE-C - Server-Side Encryption with Customer-provided keys
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- Go
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Description
I'm using k3s on Hetzner Cloud (https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/faq/general#what-configuration-and-security-features-are-currently-supported) and running a PostgreSQL cluster with cnpg. I tried to configure barman-cloud for automatic backups to Hetzner S3 storage, but it seems that this is only possible without encryption.
Currently, Hetzner S3 only supports SSE-C (which means you have to provide an encryption key). I don't really understand what the option `encryption: AES256` means in context of S3 encryption, but I assume for SSE-C there are more options required - at least for providing a secret containing the SSE-C key.
Any chance to get SSE-C support in barman-cloud? I've spend much time in securing my k8s setup (node encryption, pv encryption etc.) and storing plaintext backups in external storage makes this whole effort pointless 😞
BTW: if I just enable `encryption: ASE265`, barman-cloud fails with this log line:
````
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-11-06T19:57:05.717632266Z","logger":"barman-cloud-wal-archive","msg":"2025-11-06 19:57:05,717 [947] ERROR: Barman cloud WAL archiver exception: An error occurred (InvalidArgument) when calling the PutObject operation: None","pipe":"stderr","logging_pod":"my-pg-cluster-1"}
````
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the barman-cloud WAL archiver entry point and trace the existing `encryption: AES256` handling into the S3 `PutObject` call shown in the report. Review how configuration secrets are supplied, then identify the relevant upload tests or add coverage for the requested SSE-C inputs. Done means SSE-C uploads work for the reported S3-compatible storage without the `InvalidArgument` failure.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, postgresql
- Domain
- cloud, databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100