Aligent AWS Domain Hosting

Overview

A simple package used for creating and/or managing a hosted zone in AWS. Handy for setting up a cloudfront site from scratch when there's no existing domain management in place or integrating into an already existing setup. You are able to use a domain that was requested through AWS Route53 or an external provider.

It can be imported and used within CDK applications. By default this construct will create a hosted zone and a certificate to validate a domain against. Records are not created unless explicitly stated.

It has the following features that can optionally be enabled:

• Create custom records of CNAME, A, AAAA, MX, and SRV types
• Create a certificate for the specified domain (and any subdomains)

If using an external provider

You will need to set the NS record in your provider's management page to the values in the hosted zone after you run cdk deploy as the certificate will not validate otherwise

Installation

npm install @aligent/cdk-domain-hosting aws-cdk-lib constructs

Or with yarn:

yarn add @aligent/cdk-domain-hosting aws-cdk-lib constructs

Peer Dependencies

This package has peer dependencies on:

• aws-cdk-lib (^2.120.0)
• constructs (^10.0.0)

Make sure to install compatible versions of these packages in your CDK application.

Usage

The following CDK snippet can be used to provision a zone with records and a certificate using this construct.

import { Construct } from "constructs";
import { Stack } from "aws-cdk-lib";
import { DomainHosting } from "@aligent/cdk-domain-hosting";
import { DomainHostingProps } from "../types";
import { RecordTarget } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-route53";
import { CloudFrontTarget } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-route53-targets";

export class DomainHostingStack extends Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: DomainHostingProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    new DomainHosting(this, "DomainHostingStack", {
      domainName: props.domainName,
      certificateSubDomains: ['www'],
      records: [
        {
          type: 'CNAME',
          name: 'www.example.com',
          value: props.distribution.distributionDomainName
        },
        {
          type: 'A',
          name: 'www.example.com',
          value: RecordTarget.fromAlias(new CloudFrontTarget(props.distribution))
        },
        {
          type: 'SRV',
          name: 'xmpp.example.com',
          value: [{ port: 443, priority: 1, hostName: 'xmpp-srv', weight: 10 }]
        },
        {
          type: 'MX',
          name: 'mail.example.com',
          value: [{ priority: 1, hostName: 'mymail' }]
        },
        {
          type: 'AAAA',
          name: 'www.example.com',
          value: RecordTarget.fromAlias(new CloudFrontTarget(props.distribution))
        },
      ]
    });
  }
}

The below one would be used if you already had a certificate or hosted zone and just wanted to control it with CDK

new DomainHosting(this, "DomainHostingStack", {
	domainName: props.domainName,
	hostedZoneId: 'Z0123ABC',
	certificateArn: 'arn:aws:acm:us-east-1:xyz',
})

Little note

If you are using the StaticHostingStack you can get the CloudFront distribution value to pass as an Alias like so:

static-hosting-stack.ts

export class StaticHostingStack extends Stack {
  public readonly distribution: IDistribution; // create a class variable
  ...
  const hosting = new StaticHosting(this, "StaticHostingStack", {...}) // save it to a variable
  this.distribution  =  hosting.distribution // get the variable here
}

application.ts

    const staticHosting = new StaticHostingStack(this, "StaticHostingStack", {
      ...
    }); // from static-hosting-stack.ts class

    const domainHosting = new DomainHostingStack(this, "DomainHostingStack", {
      ...props,
      distribution: staticHosting.distribution // pass in here 
    });