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Infrastructure as code for DNS!

14 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2017-03-14 · latest 2025-11-20

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  1. I compared OctoDNS with DNSControl ( https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol ) a few years ago and settled with DNSControl because it had more providers out of the box. But using either of these tools to have your DNS redeploy-able to…
  2. …It's not as magic, but DNS can be made easy/automated with https://github.com/octodns/octodns or https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol .
  3. …should support a wide range of RR types, and domain owners should vote with their NS records. See https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/blob/master/docu... for a list of DNS providers that support CAA.
  4. …like the one you’re in were what finally motivated me to implement dnscontrol ~10 years ago. [0] https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol
  5. DNSControl ( https://dnscontrol.org ) supports split horizons as of a few days ago! https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/releases/tag/v3.... (and if I do say-so myself... the way we implemented it is pretty darn elegant)
    comment by YesThatTom2 · 2021-02-22 · in A love letter to ISC bind
  6. Nice, didn't know about that tool. Checking it out now: https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol
  7. …certs, we use it to manage our wildcard certs... even ones with multiple wildcards. Shameless plug: https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol That said... every time someone uses a wildcard cert I think it should be considered a bug. It…
  8. …DNSControl and push the results to Gandi (and NameDotCom, and Route53, and GoogleDNS, and AzureDNS) https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol (Terraform users have a similar benefit)
  9. …too that let's you easily push DNS records to multiple providers (ala DNS infrastructure as code) https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17americas/program/p...
    comment by gbrayut · 2018-10-19 · in Flares – CloudFlare DNS backup tool
  10. Shameless plug: https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol is a provider independent way to manage your zones with a single dsl style file in source control.
  11. …SRE team we use Go a _lot_. We just open-sourced our latest tool written in Go, DNSControl ( https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/ ), and we have dozens of internal tools and software written in Go. Not to mention other open-source…
    comment by thefarseeker · 2017-03-22 · in Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017