dseeker / serverless-api-cloudfront

Serverless Plugin - CloudFront distribution in front of your API Gateway

aws-serverless-api-cloudfront

This package is based on serverless-api-cloudfront

Automatically creates properly configured AWS CloudFront distribution that routes traffic to API Gateway as well as a Route53 A record to point to the distribution from a custom domain name.

Due to limitations of API Gateway Custom Domains, we realized that setting self-managed CloudFront distribution is much more powerful.

⚡ Pros

• Allows you to set-up a CloudFront distribution for your API Gateway
• Sets up a Route 53 DNS entry for the CloudFront distribution
• More CloudWatch statistics of API usage (like bandwidth metrics)
• Real world access log - out of the box, API Gateway currently does not provide any kind of real "apache-like" access logs for your invocations
• Web Application Firewall support - enable AWS WAF to protect your API from security threats

Installation

$ npm install --save-dev dseeker/serverless-api-cloudfront

Configuration

• FullDomainName - This is REQUIRED and is used to determine the Domain name of the CloudFront Distribution as well register the Route53 A record. In addition, the hostname will be extracted from the full domain name and used to find the correct certificate if the certificate ARN is not explicitly provided.
• All apiCloudFront configuration parameters are optional other than FullDomainName
• First deployment may be quite long (e.g. 30 min) as Serverless is waiting for CloudFormation to deploy CloudFront distribution.

# add in your serverless.yml

plugins:
  - aws-serverless-api-cloudfront

custom:
  apiCloudFront:
    fullDomainName:  api.my-custom-domain.com
    certificate: (Determined from fullDomainName if not present) arn:aws:acm:us-east-1:000000000000:certificate/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444
    waf: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    compress: true
    logging:
      bucket: my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
      prefix: my-prefix
    cookies: none
    headers:
      - x-api-key
    querystring:
      - page
      - per_page
    priceClass: PriceClass_100
    defaultTTL: 3600

Notes

• cookies can be all (default), none or a list that lists the cookies to whitelist

cookies:
  - FirstCookieName
  - SecondCookieName

• headers can be all, none (default) or a list of headers (see CloudFront custom behaviour):

headers: all

• querystring can be all (default), none or a list, in which case all querystring parameters are forwarded, but cache is based on the list:

querystring: all

• priceClass can be PriceClass_All (default), PriceClass_100 or PriceClass_200:

priceClass: PriceClass_100 is the default

• minimumProtocolVersion can be TLSv1 (default), TLSv1_2016, TLSv1.1_2016, TLSv1.2_2018 or SSLv3:

minimumProtocolVersion: TLSv1

• [defaultTTL][default-ttl] '0' is default:

defaultTTL: '0'

• [functionAssociations][function-associations] not configured by defailt

functionAssociations:
  - EventType: viewer-request
    LambdaFunctionARN: arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:****:function:****

IAM Policy

In order to make this plugin work as expected a few additional IAM Policies might be needed on your AWS profile.

More specifically this plugin needs the following policies attached:

• cloudfront:CreateDistribution
• cloudfront:GetDistribution
• cloudfront:UpdateDistribution
• cloudfront:DeleteDistribution
• cloudfront:TagResource

You can read more about IAM profiles and policies in the Serverless documentation.

Error troubleshooting

• Make sure you have at least one http event otherwise you'll get The CloudFormation template is invalid: Template format error: Unresolved resource dependencies [ApiGatewayRestApi] in the Resources block of the template