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What is this integration?

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that accelerates delivery of your content through edge locations.

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What Monk manages

  • Distribution and related configuration

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What the Agent can do and how to use it

  • Distribution Management: Create, update, and delete CloudFront distributions
  • Origin Configuration: Configure S3 buckets, HTTP servers, or custom origins as content sources
  • Cache Behaviors: Set up caching rules, compression, and content optimization
  • Security: Configure SSL/TLS certificates, geographic restrictions, and access controls
  • Invalidations: Clear cached content and force fresh delivery
  • Monitoring: Enable CloudFront access logging and real-time metrics
Steps:
  1. Ensure AWS provider is added: monk cluster provider add -p aws
  2. monk update <namespace>/<name>

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Auth

  • Uses AWS provider credentials configured via monk cluster provider add -p aws

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Getting Started

  1. Ensure AWS provider is added:
monk cluster provider add -p aws
  1. Define a distribution (save as cloudfront.yaml):
namespace: aws-cloudfront-examples

basic-s3-distribution:
  defines: aws-cloudfront/distribution
  region: us-east-1
  enabled: true
  default_root_object: index.html
  origins:
    - id: s3-origin
      domain_name: my-website-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
      s3_origin_config:
        origin_access_identity: ""
  default_cache_behavior:
    target_origin_id: s3-origin
    viewer_protocol_policy: redirect-to-https
    allowed_methods: [GET, HEAD]
    cached_methods: [GET, HEAD]
  1. Create/update:
monk update aws-cloudfront-examples/basic-s3-distribution
monk describe aws-cloudfront-examples/basic-s3-distribution