Amazon CloudFront

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What is this integration?

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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

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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Links

• Provider docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html

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Getting Started

1. Ensure AWS provider is added:

monk cluster provider add -p aws

2. 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]

3. Create/update:

monk update aws-cloudfront-examples/basic-s3-distribution
monk describe aws-cloudfront-examples/basic-s3-distribution