Error creating CloudFront Distribution: NoSuchOrigin:

Question

I am trying to deploy a Cloudfront distribution with Terraform and getting an error while specifying the origin_id

Cloudfront is pointing at a load balancer via a Route53 lookup.

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "my-app" {
  origin {
    custom_origin_config {
      http_port              = 443
      https_port             = 443
      origin_protocol_policy = "https-only"
      origin_ssl_protocols   = ["TLSv1.2"]
    }

    domain_name = "${var.domain_name}"
    origin_id   = "Custom-${var.domain_name}"
  }

...

  default_cache_behavior {
    allowed_methods  = ["GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS", "PATCH", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE"]
    cached_methods   = ["GET", "HEAD"]
    target_origin_id = "${local.origin_id}"

...

where var.domain_name is a route53 record and local.origin_id is a unique id.

When performing the terraform apply I get this error:

aws_cloudfront_distribution.my-app: error creating CloudFront Distribution: NoSuchOrigin: One or more of your origins or origin groups do not exist.

The documentation states: origin_id (Required) - A unique identifier for the origin. which it is.

Answer 1

The error relates to the cache behaviour. You need to make sure that the target_origin_id relates to an origin_id within a cache behaviour.

Like so:

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "my-app" {
  origin {
    custom_origin_config {
      http_port              = 443
      https_port             = 443
      origin_protocol_policy = "https-only"
      origin_ssl_protocols   = ["TLSv1.2"]
    }

    domain_name = "${var.domain_name}"
    origin_id   = "Custom-${var.domain_name}"
  }

...

  default_cache_behavior {
    allowed_methods  = ["GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS", "PATCH", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE"]
    cached_methods   = ["GET", "HEAD"]
    target_origin_id = "Custom-${var.domain_name}"

...