CloudFront Invalidate Distribution

Make your AWS CodePipeline invoke this Lambda function to invalidate a CloudFront distribution.

Prerequisites

Install the Serverless Framework if you don't have it.

npm install -g serverless

Deploy

git clone https://github.com/jweyrich/cloudfront-invalidate-dist.git
cd cloudfront-invalidate-dist
export AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1
serverless deploy [--aws-profile yourProfile]

Configure your CodePipeline

1. Open your CodePipeline

2. Create a new stage

3. Add a new action

4. In 'Action Provider' select 'AWS Lambda'

5. In 'Function name' select the deployed function

6. In 'User parameters' specify the desired CloudFront distribution and paths to be invalidated. Example:

   { "distributionId": "FP7AWS1WBJLKSX", "objectPaths": [ "/*" ] }

7. Save the action

8. Test

Examples of User Parameters

{ "distributionId": "FP7AWS1WBJLKSX", "objectPaths": [ "/*" ] }
{ "distributionId": "FP7AWS1WBJLKSX", "objectPaths": [ "/foo", "/bar/baz.jpg", "/bar/baz/*" ] }