gmansilla / s3-cloudfront-hosting

Webhosting with S3 and Cloudfront

This is a project for deploying the infrastructure to host a static website with Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3

We'll be using CDK for creating our infrastructure.

First, make sure you clone this project

$git clone https://github.com/gmansilla/s3-cloudfront-hosting.git && cd s3-cloudfront-hosting

This project is set up like a standard Python project. The initialization process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .venv directory. To create the virtualenv it assumes that there is a python3 (or python for Windows) executable in your path with access to the venv package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails, you can create the virtualenv manually.

To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:

$ python3 -m venv .venv

After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.

$ source .venv/bin/activate

If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:

% .venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Prior to deploying, we need to bootstrap CDK

$cdk bootstrap

And we're ready to deploy!

$cdk deploy

Pay attention to the Output of this command as this will tell you the URL of your new website.

The URL should be next to s3-cloudfront.CloudFrontWebDistribution

Destroying the stack

After you experiment with this project, you should delete the contents of your buckets (and any versions of objects) and run $cdk destroy Note: this command will attempt to destroy all components created and can fail if you still have objects in your buckets.

Enjoy!