Cloudfront Private Streaming With Ruby on Rails 3

Please check below steps to setup amazon cloudfront private content streaming in Ruby on Rails 3

Create Amazon s3 bucket to store your private contents

1. Go to Amazon Simple storage service(S3)

2. Click ‘create bucket’ button, give bucket name and click ‘create’

3. Select bucket, click ‘create folder’ on top and give folder name

4. Add your mp4 contents in newly created folder

Create private streaming distribution in cloudfront

1. Go to cloud front console

2. Click ‘create distribution’ button

3. Select ‘Streaming’ and click ‘continue’

4. Set below configuration

   • Origin Domain name

     Choose your bucket name in the drop down

   • Restrict Bucket Access

     Select ‘Yes’

   • Origin Access Identity

     Select ‘Create a new identity’ or ‘use an existing identity’ if you already created it

   • Grant Read Permissions on Bucket

     Select ‘Yes, update bucket policy’

   • Restrict Viewer Access (Use signed urls)

     Select ‘yes’

   • Distribution State

     Select ‘Enabled’

5. Click ‘create distribution’ and go to cloudfront home page

6. Check the status of your newly created private distribution it shows ‘in progress’, wait until status shows as ‘deployed’, it may take longer time to get deployed

Create cloudfront key pairs

Note: If you already created private key and key pair id skip below steps

1. Sign in to the AWS management console and go to security credential page at https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials.

2. Under ‘Access credentials’, click the ‘kay pairs’ tab

3. Under ‘Amazon cloudFront key pairs’, click ‘create a new key pair’

4. Save private key and store it in safe place

5. Copy key pair id and paste it somewhere to use it later

Note: These Key pair id and private key required to access the private streaming distribution

Access private streaming in Ruby on Rails

Install https://github.com/krishnasrihari/cloudfront-private gem and configure it as described in guide