ivansible / srv-cdn

simple nginx-based cdn (deprecated)

ivansible.srv_cdn

This role configures simple nginx-based CDN.

Any CDN request can have few optional HTTP headers:

• X-CDN-Front - desired front host name, defaults to host name from request.
• X-CDN-Host - desired server host name, determines origin, defaults to $cdn_front.
• X-CDN-Back - desired origin host name, optional, overrides origin.

Requirements

None

Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values.

    srv_cdn_sites:
      - server: .mydomain.com
        origin: www.example.com
        lecert: mydomain.com

The main list of sites has records with the following fields:

• server - font server name, can be full.host.name or .domain.name (required);
• origin - host name of an origin server, which must support https (required);
• lecert - name of custom letsencrypt certificate for the server (optional);
• hidden - if true, server-to-origin mapping is defined but server name is skipped (optional, defaults to false).

    srv_cdn_default_origin: example.com

The fallback origin.

    srv_cdn_cloudflare:
      - zone: example.com
        name: {{ inventory_hostname }}
        type: AAAA
        value: {{ ansible_default_ipv6.address }}
        proxied: false

The list of per-host cloudflare records has the following fields:

• zone - zone for the record (required);
• name - record name (usually unqualified hostname), required;
• type - type of record, one of: A AAAA CNAME etc (required);
• value - optional value, record will be skipped if this is empty or falsy;
• proxied - true or false, defaults to false.

    srv_cdn_cloudflare_email: ~
    srv_cdn_cloudflare_token: ~

CloudFlare credentials. If these settings are empty, falsy or undefined, then cloudflare tasks will be skipped.

    srv_cdn_cloudfront:
      - server: www.mydomain.com
        reference: www.mydomain.com_cdn1
        origin: override.example.com
        lecert: mydomain.com
        cache: false

This array configures CloudFront CDN distributions with full web paths like cloudfront -> server -> origin, where each record has fields:

• server - front server name matching a record from the list of sites above (required);
• origin - optional, overrides origin from the list of sites above;
• reference - unique cloudfront identifier (optional, defaults to the server name with a suffix);
• lecert - name of custom letsencrypt certificate for the server (optional);
• cache - false disables cloudfront caching, true - enables it (optional, defaults to srv_cdn_cloudfront_default_cache);
• delete - if true, the distribution will be deleted instead of creating/updating (optional, defaults to false).

    srv_cdn_cloudfront_default_reference: SERVER_cdn

Default name for distribution reference (SERVER is replaced by the actual server name).

    srv_cdn_filters:
      - src: ...
        dst: ...

These replacements will be applied to HTML.

srv_cdn_cloudfront_max_ttl: 2592000    # one month
srv_cdn_cloudfront_default_ttl: 86400  # one day
srv_cdn_cloudfront_cached_methods: [GET, HEAD]
srv_cdn_cloudfront_default_cache: true

Various defaults for CloudFront caching.

srv_cdn_cloudfront_access_key: ~
srv_cdn_cloudfront_secret_key: ~

Amazon CloudFront credentials, required if srv_cdn_cloudfront has records, optional otherwise. If these settings are empty or undefined, they default to the environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY on the ansible controller host.

Tags

• srv_cdn_cloudflare - configures DNS records in CloudFlare
• srv_cdn_cloudfront - configures CloudFront distributions
• srv_cdn_nginx - configures CDN site and mappings in nginx
• srv_cdn_nginx_site - configures common CDN site settings in nginx
• srv_cdn_all - all of the above

Dependencies

• ivansible.nginx_base - inherit defaults and handlers
• ivansible.lin_nginx (implicit dependency)

Example Playbook

- hosts: myserver
  roles:
     - role: ivansible.srv_cdn

License

MIT

Author Information

Created in 2020-2021 by IvanSible