Deploy on already existed cloudfront distribution

[HieronyM]

actually I already comment on #10, But for visibility I will create another one.

So I want to deploy the solution on already existed Cloudfront distribution. I have a static website host in bucket X, but the web get assets (images, etc) from bucket Y.

To deploy it, what command should I use?
cdk deploy -c S3_IMAGE_BUCKET_NAME='bucket-X' or cdk deploy -c S3_IMAGE_BUCKET_NAME='bucket-Y'?

Thank you,

[achrafsouk]

The current solution does not reuse an existing CloudFront distribution. In order to do that, you have to change the CDK code to import an existing CloudFront Distirbution using the following method fromDistributionAttributes

When you do that, bucket Y should be used, as it's the source of your images.

[HieronyM]

@achrafsouk ,

Currently I'm not really familiar with AWS CDK, is there any manual way to change or deploy this solution?

[achrafsouk]

Well of course you can do it in the console.

• You have to create a new cache behavior in your existing CloudFront distribution dediated for serving images (e.g. /images/* or *.jpg, *.png, etc..)
• Then mimic the configuration of this cache behavior using the deployed CloudFront distribution in the solution: Associate the CloudFront Function on the viewer event, configure the origin failover with appropriate origins, etc...

[HieronyM]

Thanks for the reply @achrafsouk ,

btw I have question regarding my 1st question,
let's say I decide with this approach instead for the deployment cdk deploy -c S3_IMAGE_BUCKET_NAME='bucket-Y'

Is there any way the deployment harm the object in Bucket Y?
Apparently, I used same S3 bucket to serve Dev and Prod assets.

[yangcheng]

I have a similar question, is it recommended to delete my old distribution and associate custom domains to new distributuion?