Konfigurieren der Push-Invalidierung für das BYO-Produktions-CDN

Push invalidation automatically purges content on the customer’s production CDN (e.g. www.yourdomain.com), whenever an author publishes content changes.

Content is purged by url and by cache tag/key.

Setting up push invalidation requires 2 steps:

Configuration

Push invalidation is currently supported for CDNs of the following vendors:

Push invalidation is enabled by adding specific properties to the project’s configuration (an Excel workbook named .helix/config.xlsx in Sharepoint or a Google Sheet named .helix/config in Google Drive).

The following sections describe the vendor specific properties required to set up push invalidation.

Fastly

Configuration properties:

key
value
comment
cdn.prod.host
<Production Host>
Host name of production site, e.g. www.yourdomain.com
cdn.prod.type
fastly
cdn.prod.serviceId
<Fastly Service ID>
Service ID of production service
cdn.prod.authToken
<Fastly API Token>

Create a Fastly API Token

  • go to Personal API Tokens,
  • click on “Create Token”,
  • enter a name (e.g. "Production Site Purge Token"),
  • select “A specific service” and your production service from the drop-down list,
  • check the “Purge select content (purge_select) — Purge by URL or surrogate key” check box,
  • select “Never expire”,
  • click on “Create Token”,
  • copy the generated token value shown in the pop-up window.

You can validate the credentials with this tool.

Akamai

Configuration properties

key
value
comment
cdn.prod.host
<Production Host>
Host name of production site, e.g. www.yourdomain.com
cdn.prod.type
akamai
cdn.prod.endpoint
<host>
Fast Purge API credentials
cdn.prod.clientSecret
<client_secret>
Fast Purge API credentials
cdn.prod.clientToken
<client_token>
Fast Purge API credentials
cdn.prod.accessToken
<access_token>
Fast Purge API credentials

Push invalidation uses the Akamai Fast Purge API, specifically Delete by URL and Delete by cache tag.

The Fast Purge API credentials consist of

host = akaa-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.luna.akamaiapis.net
client_token = akab-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
client_secret = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
access_token = akab-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

They can be generated by following the instructions at Create an API client with custom permissions.

Identity & Access Management

Create API client



Required group/role permissions:

You can validate the credentials with this tool.

Cloudflare

Configuration properties

key
value
comment
cdn.prod.host
<Production Host>
Host name of production site, e.g. www.yourdomain.com
cdn.prod.type
cloudflare
cdn.prod.plan
e.g. free

values: free, pro, business, enterprise

default: free

only enterprise plan supports purge-by-tag

cdn.prod.zoneId
<Cloudflare Zone ID>
ID of production zone
cdn.prod.apiToken
<Cloudflare API Token>

Create an API Token

  • go to API Tokens
  • click on “Create Token”,
  • go to “Create Custom Token” at the bottom and click on “Get started”
  • enter a token name (e.g. "Production Site Purge Token"),
  • Permissions: “Zone”, “Cache Purge”, “Purge”
  • Zone Resources: “Include”, “Specific zone”, “<your production zone>”
  • click on “Continue to summary”
  • click on “Create Token”,
  • copy the generated token value.

Note that only sites on the enterprise plan will be surgically purged by url and cache key. A Purge All will be performed instead on non-enterprise sites every time an author publishes a content change.

You can validate the credentials with this tool.

CloudFront

NB: CloudFront does NOT support purging by cache tag/key. Purge by cache tag/key always triggers a purge all.

Configuration properties

key
value
comment
cdn.prod.host
<Production Host>
Host name of production site, e.g. www.yourdomain.com
cdn.prod.type
cloudfront
cdn.prod.distributionId
<Cloudfront Distribution ID>
cdn.prod.accessKeyId
<AWS Access key ID>
AWS credentials
cdn.prod.secretAccessKey
<AWS Secret access key>
AWS credentials

Create the AWS credentials

In the AWS Console, open the IAM dashboard:

Select Users -> Add users:

Enter a user name and check “Access key - Programmatic access”:

On the “Set permissions” pane, click on “Create group”:

Enter a group name and select the CloudFrontFullAccess policy:

Create the user:

Finally, copy the Access key ID and Secret access key values:

You can validate the credentials with this tool.

Opt-In Request Header

The production CDN needs to send the following opt-in header to the origin in order to enable long cache TTLs:

X-Push-Invalidation: enabled

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