mountpoint-sqs

Mountpoint-SQS is a simple and lightweight filesystem that exposes Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) as if it were a filesystem, adhering to the Unix philosophy of "everything is a file". This allows you to interact with SQS queues using familiar file system CLI utilities for reading, writing, and listing files.

mountpoint-sqs_demo.mp4

Features

• Exposes SQS queues as files.
• Supports standard file operations like read, write.
• Designed to be simple, intuitive, and easy to use.
• Built with FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace).

Example

# Mount the SQS queues
./mountpoint-sqs /mnt/sqs

# List all queues and messages
ls /mnt/sqs

# Write a new message to a queue
echo "Hello World" > /mnt/sqs/my_queue

# Read a message from a queue
cat /mnt/sqs/my_queue

Build

Install dependencies:

# On Fedora
dnf install fuse3 fuse3-devel

# On Ubuntu
apt install fuse3 libfuse3-dev

To build it, just run:

cargo build --release

Run

Usage

$ ./mountpoint-sqs -h
Usage: mountpoint-sqs [OPTIONS] <MOUNT_POINT>

Arguments:
  <MOUNT_POINT>  Directory to mount the SQS queues at

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

Mount options:
      --auto-unmount  Automatically unmount on process exit

SQS options:
  -c, --cache-ttl-in-secs <CACHE_TTL_IN_SECS>
          How long to keep SQS queues cache locally [default: 30]

To unmount it

fusermount -u /mnt/sqs