grunt-cloudfront-invalidate

A simple plugin to trigger a cloudfront invalidation

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-cloudfront-invalidate --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-cloudfront-invalidate');

The "cloudfront_invalidate" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named cloudfront_invalidate to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  cloudfront_invalidate: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.accessKeyId

Type: String

Your aws cloudfront access key. Required.

options.secretAccessKey

Type: String

Your aws cloudfront secret key. Required.

options.distributionId

Type: String

Your aws cloudfront distribution id. Required.

options.debug

Type: Boolean

If true, the plugin will dump the generated invalidation options that will be sent to amazon

options.path

Type: String|Array

The path(s) to add to the invalidation batch. Can set to /* to invalidate all files in the dist.

options.files

Type: Object

The grunt files config for the files you would like to invalidate.

Usage Examples

Invalidate all files

{
    config: {
        options: {
            accessKeyId: <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>,
            secretAccessKey: <YOUR_SECRET_KEY>,
            distributionId: <YOUR_DISTRIBUTION_ID>,
            path: '/*'
        },
    }
}

Invalidate only JS files

{
    config: {
        options: {
            accessKeyId: <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>,
            secretAccessKey: <YOUR_SECRET_KEY>,
            distributionId: <YOUR_DISTRIBUTION_ID>,
        },
        files: {
            expand: true,
            src: ['**/*.js'],
            dest: '/'
        }
    }
}

Contributing

Feel free to report bugs, suggest features and submit pull requests on GitHub!

Release History

v 1.0.0 - Initial Commit