setup-domain-aws

Automate the tedious process of domain registration, certificate setup, and GitHub secrets config.

Installing & Running

npm install -g setup-domain-aws
setup-domain-aws full

or

npx setup-domain-aws full

How does it work?

With setup-domain-aws, you can automate this process:

1. 🔗 Registering a domain (AWS Route53 Domains)
2. 🥱 Waiting for domain registration request to complete
3. ✅ Creating a Route53 Hosted Zone
4. 🔐 Requesting an ACM certificate
5. 📜 Adding DNS records for certificate validation
6. 😴 Waiting for certificate validation to complete
7. 🤫 Storing the config info (HOSTED_ZONE_ID, DOMAIN, and CERTIFICATE_ARN) for CI/CD using one of:
   • in GitHub Secrets
   • in AWS Secrets Manager
   • in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
   • in a file  

Config storage options

GitHub Secrets

--store-config-target github://<username>/<repo>

This will set HOSTED_ZONE_ID, DOMAIN, and CERTIFICATE_ARN as Secrets in the GitHub repository.

Note: you will need a GitHub Personal Access Token with repo access for this option

AWS Secrets Manager

--store-config-target secretsmanager://<prefix>

This will create the following SecretString type secrets in secretsmanager, encrpyted with the default CMK:

• <prefix>HOSTED_ZONE_ID
• <prefix>DOMAIN
• <prefix>CERTIFICATE_ARN

Systems Manager Parameter Store

--store-config-target ssm://<prefix>

This will set the following String type parameters in SSM:

• <prefix>HOSTED_ZONE_ID
• <prefix>DOMAIN
• <prefix>CERTIFICATE_ARN

File

--store-config-target file://<path>

This will create a file at <path> in this form:

HOSTED_ZONE_ID=<value>
DOMAIN=<value>
CERTIFICATE_ARN=<value>

What if I don't need all that?

You can run any of the steps individually!

• Use register for domain registration
• Use get-hosted-zone to get the hosted zone id for a domain you've registered
• Use cert to request an ACM certificate
• Use store-config to store config info for CI/CD.

Also, if you run setup-domain-aws full and you've already completed some of the steps (for example, if you already own the domain), the CLI will skip over those steps.  

Command-line options vs prompts

The examples above use command-line options to supply information. If you don't do that (for example, if you just run setup-domain-aws full), the CLI will prompt you for each piece of information it needs.

Note: when using GitHub Secrets as a the store-config target, it is not possible, for security reasons, to pass the GitHub PAT as a command-line parameter. You will be prompted for this information. Alternatively, you can pass the option --get-pat-from-stdin and pipe it:

# GitHub Actions example:
echo ${{ secrets.PAT }} | setup-domain-aws store-config --get-pat-from-stdin

# Mac OS Keychain example:
security find-generic-password -a ${USER} -s <keychain item name> -w | setup-domain-aws store-config --get-pat-from-stdin