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Terraform Module that implements a CloudFront Distribution (CDN) for a custom origin.

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Terraform Module that implements a CloudFront Distribution (CDN) for a custom origin (e.g. website) and ships logs to a bucket.

If you need to accelerate an S3 bucket, we suggest using terraform-aws-cloudfront-s3-cdn instead.

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Usage

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest (which tests and deploys the example on AWS), see test.

module "cdn" {
  source = "cloudposse/cloudfront-cdn/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version     = "x.x.x"
  namespace          = "eg"
  stage              = "prod"
  name               = "app"
  aliases            = ["www.example.net"]
  origin_domain_name = "origin.example.com"
  parent_zone_name   = "example.net"
}

Complete example of setting up CloudFront Distribution with Cache Behaviors for a WordPress site: examples/wordpress

Generating ACM Certificate

Use the AWS cli to request new ACM certifiates (requires email validation)

aws acm request-certificate --domain-name example.com --subject-alternative-names a.example.com b.example.com *.c.example.com

Important

In Cloud Posse's examples, we avoid pinning modules to specific versions to prevent discrepancies between the documentation and the latest released versions. However, for your own projects, we strongly advise pinning each module to the exact version you're using. This practice ensures the stability of your infrastructure. Additionally, we recommend implementing a systematic approach for updating versions to avoid unexpected changes.

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
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  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Name Version
terraform >= 1.0
aws >= 4.9.0
local >= 1.2

Providers

Name Version
aws >= 4.9.0

Modules

Name Source Version
dns cloudposse/route53-alias/aws 0.13.0
logs cloudposse/s3-log-storage/aws 1.4.2
origin_label cloudposse/label/null 0.25.0
this cloudposse/label/null 0.25.0

Resources

Name Type
aws_cloudfront_distribution.default resource
aws_cloudfront_origin_access_identity.default resource

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
acm_certificate_arn Existing ACM Certificate ARN string "" no
additional_tag_map Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.		 map(string) {} no
aliases List of aliases. CAUTION! Names MUSTN'T contain trailing . list(string) [] no
allowed_methods List of allowed methods (e.g. GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD) for AWS CloudFront list(string) 
[
  "DELETE",
  "GET",
  "HEAD",
  "OPTIONS",
  "PATCH",
  "POST",
  "PUT"
]
 no
attributes ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.		 list(string) [] no
cache_policy_id ID of the cache policy attached to the cache behavior string null no
cached_methods List of cached methods (e.g. GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD) list(string) 
[
  "GET",
  "HEAD"
]
 no
comment Comment for the origin access identity string "Managed by Terraform" no
compress Whether you want CloudFront to automatically compress content for web requests that include Accept-Encoding: gzip in the request header (default: false) bool false no
context Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.		 any 
{
  "additional_tag_map": {},
  "attributes": [],
  "delimiter": null,
  "descriptor_formats": {},
  "enabled": true,
  "environment": null,
  "id_length_limit": null,
  "label_key_case": null,
  "label_order": [],
  "label_value_case": null,
  "labels_as_tags": [
    "unset"
  ],
  "name": null,
  "namespace": null,
  "regex_replace_chars": null,
  "stage": null,
  "tags": {},
  "tenant": null
}
 no
custom_error_response List of one or more custom error response element maps 
list(object({
    error_caching_min_ttl = string
    error_code            = string
    response_code         = string
    response_page_path    = string
  }))
 [] no
custom_header List of one or more custom headers passed to the origin 
list(object({
    name  = string
    value = string
  }))
 [] no
custom_origins One or more custom origins for this distribution (multiples allowed). See documentation for configuration options description https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/cloudfront_distribution.html#origin-arguments 
list(object({
    domain_name              = string
    origin_id                = string
    origin_path              = string
    origin_access_control_id = string
    custom_headers = list(object({
      name  = string
      value = string
    }))
    custom_origin_config = object({
      http_port                = number
      https_port               = number
      origin_protocol_policy   = string
      origin_ssl_protocols     = list(string)
      origin_keepalive_timeout = number
      origin_read_timeout      = number
    })
    s3_origin_config = object({
      origin_access_identity = string
    })
  }))
 [] no
default_root_object Object that CloudFront return when requests the root URL string "index.html" no
default_ttl Default amount of time (in seconds) that an object is in a CloudFront cache number 60 no
delimiter Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.		 string null no
descriptor_formats Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).		 any {} no
distribution_enabled Set to true if you want CloudFront to begin processing requests as soon as the distribution is created, or to false if you do not want CloudFront to begin processing requests after the distribution is created. bool true no
dns_aliases_enabled Set to false to prevent dns records for aliases from being created bool true no
enabled Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources bool null no
environment ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' string null no
forward_cookies Specifies whether you want CloudFront to forward cookies to the origin. Valid options are all, none or whitelist string "none" no
forward_cookies_whitelisted_names List of forwarded cookie names list(string) [] no
forward_headers Specifies the Headers, if any, that you want CloudFront to vary upon for this cache behavior. Specify * to include all headers. list(string) [] no
forward_query_string Forward query strings to the origin that is associated with this cache behavior bool false no
function_association A config block that triggers a CloudFront function with specific actions.
See the aws_cloudfront_distribution
documentation for more information.		 
list(object({
    event_type   = string
    function_arn = string
  }))
 [] no
geo_restriction_locations List of country codes for which CloudFront either to distribute content (whitelist) or not distribute your content (blacklist) list(string) [] no
geo_restriction_type Method that use to restrict distribution of your content by country: none, whitelist, or blacklist string "none" no
http_version The maximum HTTP version to support on the distribution. Allowed values are http1.1, http2, http2and3 and http3. string "http2" no
id_length_limit Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.		 number null no
is_ipv6_enabled State of CloudFront IPv6 bool true no
label_key_case Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.		 string null no
label_order The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.		 list(string) null no
label_value_case Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.		 string null no
labels_as_tags Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.		 set(string) 
[
  "default"
]
 no
lambda_function_association A config block that triggers a Lambda@Edge function with specific actions 
list(object({
    event_type   = string
    include_body = bool
    lambda_arn   = string
  }))
 [] no
log_bucket_fqdn Optional fqdn of logging bucket, if not supplied a bucket will be generated. string "" no
log_expiration_days Number of days after which to expunge the objects number 90 no
log_force_destroy Applies to log bucket created by this module only. If true, all objects will be deleted from the bucket on destroy, so that the bucket can be destroyed without error. These objects are not recoverable. bool false no
log_glacier_transition_days Number of days after which to move the data to the glacier storage tier number 60 no
log_include_cookies Include cookies in access logs bool false no
log_prefix Path of logs in S3 bucket string "" no
log_standard_transition_days Number of days to persist in the standard storage tier before moving to the glacier tier number 30 no
logging_enabled When true, access logs will be sent to a newly created s3 bucket bool true no
max_ttl Maximum amount of time (in seconds) that an object is in a CloudFront cache number 31536000 no
min_ttl Minimum amount of time that you want objects to stay in CloudFront caches number 0 no
name ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.		 string null no
namespace ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique string null no
ordered_cache An ordered list of cache behaviors resource for this distribution. List from top to bottom in order of precedence. The topmost cache behavior will have precedence 0.
The fields can be described by the other variables in this file. For example, the field 'lambda_function_association' in this object has
a description in var.lambda_function_association variable earlier in this file. The only difference is that fields on this object are in ordered caches, whereas the rest
of the vars in this file apply only to the default cache. Put value "" on field target_origin_id to specify default s3 bucket origin.		 
list(object({
    target_origin_id = string
    path_pattern     = string

    allowed_methods          = list(string)
    cached_methods           = list(string)
    cache_policy_id          = string
    origin_request_policy_id = string
    compress                 = bool

    viewer_protocol_policy = string
    min_ttl                = number
    default_ttl            = number
    max_ttl                = number

    forward_query_string  = bool
    forward_header_values = list(string)
    forward_cookies       = string

    response_headers_policy_id = string

    lambda_function_association = list(object({
      event_type   = string
      include_body = bool
      lambda_arn   = string
    }))

    function_association = list(object({
      event_type   = string
      function_arn = string
    }))
  }))
 [] no
origin_access_control_id CloudFront provides two ways to send authenticated requests to an Amazon S3 origin: origin access control (OAC) and origin access identity (OAI). OAC helps you secure your origins, such as for Amazon S3. string null no
origin_access_identity_enabled When true, creates origin access identity resource bool true no
origin_domain_name The DNS domain name of your custom origin (e.g. website) string "" no
origin_http_port The HTTP port the custom origin listens on number "80" no
origin_https_port The HTTPS port the custom origin listens on number 443 no
origin_keepalive_timeout The Custom KeepAlive timeout, in seconds. By default, AWS enforces a limit of 60. But you can request an increase. number 60 no
origin_path An optional element that causes CloudFront to request your content from a directory in your Amazon S3 bucket or your custom origin. It must begin with a /. Do not add a / at the end of the path. string "" no
origin_protocol_policy The origin protocol policy to apply to your origin. One of http-only, https-only, or match-viewer string "match-viewer" no
origin_read_timeout The Custom Read timeout, in seconds. By default, AWS enforces a limit of 60. But you can request an increase. number 60 no
origin_request_policy_id ID of the origin request policy attached to the cache behavior string null no
origin_shield The CloudFront Origin Shield settings 
object({
    enabled = bool
    region  = string
  })
 null no
origin_ssl_protocols The SSL/TLS protocols that you want CloudFront to use when communicating with your origin over HTTPS list(string) 
[
  "TLSv1",
  "TLSv1.1",
  "TLSv1.2"
]
 no
parent_zone_id ID of the hosted zone to contain this record (or specify parent_zone_name) string "" no
parent_zone_name Name of the hosted zone to contain this record (or specify parent_zone_id) string "" no
price_class Price class for this distribution: PriceClass_All, PriceClass_200, PriceClass_100 string "PriceClass_100" no
realtime_log_config_arn The ARN of the real-time log configuration that is attached to this cache behavior string null no
regex_replace_chars Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.		 string null no
response_headers_policy_id The identifier for a response headers policy string "" no
stage ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' string null no
tags Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.		 map(string) {} no
tenant ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for string null no
trusted_signers List of AWS account IDs (or self) that you want to allow to create signed URLs for private content list(string) [] no
viewer_minimum_protocol_version The minimum version of the SSL protocol that you want CloudFront to use for HTTPS connections. This is ignored if the default CloudFront certificate is used. string "TLSv1.2_2021" no
viewer_protocol_policy allow-all, redirect-to-https string "redirect-to-https" no
web_acl_id ID of the AWS WAF web ACL that is associated with the distribution string "" no

Outputs

Name Description
cf_aliases Extra CNAMEs of AWS CloudFront
cf_arn ARN of CloudFront distribution
cf_domain_name Domain name corresponding to the distribution
cf_etag Current version of the distribution's information
cf_hosted_zone_id CloudFront Route 53 Zone ID
cf_id ID of CloudFront distribution
cf_origin_access_identity A shortcut to the full path for the origin access identity to use in CloudFront
cf_status Current status of the distribution
logs Logs resource

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