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Configure external DNS servers dynamically from Kubernetes resources

22 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2017-04-14 · latest 2026-05-26

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  1. Bonus points for rfc 2136, works easily with [external-dns]( https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ). I've been using k8s+external-dns on-prem with a selfhosted minimal BIND server on a public host for years now.
    comment by hbogert · 2026-05-26 · in DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
  2. …as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor. 1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns 2: https://github.com/kubedb/operator 3: https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/
    comment by cmeacham98 · 2023-02-17 · in Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API
  3. …perfectly as long as your DNS as some way to doing automatic updates. 1. https://kube-vip.io/ 2. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by badLiveware · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
  4. …so I don't have real need for load balancing, but it seems possible with existing solutions. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by toteno · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
  5. Definitely wider than they say. I cannot access e.g. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns , which should be just the homepage of a project.
    comment by rpadovani · 2022-04-25 · in Incident with GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages
  6. …like k0s, bare metal, EKS/AKS etc. [0] https://k0sproject.io/ [1] https://cert-manager.io/ [2] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by PascalW · 2021-12-31 · in Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
  7. Via annotations on my ingresses, and, of course, with this : https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by Fiahil · 2021-10-12 · in Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
  8. …m/cloudflare/cloudflare-ingress-controller ), an operator for managing external dns with cloudflare ( https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/blob/master/ ...). Everything else is pretty much they way any other cluster would look.…
    comment by geoah · 2021-10-04 · in Ask HN: Does anyone use a fully Kubernetes-native stack at home/work?
  9. …if you're already using containers or a similar tool. 1: https://cert-manager.io/docs/ 2: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by cmeacham98 · 2021-04-14 · in Exploring the Kubernetes API with Curl
  10. …cert-manager [2] supports it. I don't think you need a proxy if you use the DNS01 challenges. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/ [2] https://cert-manager.io/docs/
    comment by kryptn · 2021-03-18 · in Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog
  11. Done https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/pull/1765
    comment by pddp11 · 2020-09-01 · in Kubernetes, ingress-Nginx, cert-manager and external-DNS
  12. …post a link to your article in the community blog post section of the external-dns GitHub readme https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
    comment by mleonard · 2020-08-20 · in Kubernetes, ingress-Nginx, cert-manager and external-DNS
  13. …this, but it's true that ingress won't create the record automatically for you - but external-dns ( https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ) will - with the correct annotations (pretty simple), external-dns will watch for changes…
    comment by fimbulvetr · 2020-07-07 · in A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
  14. …these to my router over BGP because, you know, why not? I then have external-dns running ( https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ) which manages the relevant A/CNAME records on Google DNS (other DNS providers are supported) so…
    comment by growse · 2020-05-01 · in Domesticating Kubernetes
  15. …ways to spin up and down new nodes. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api Also see https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns .
    comment by dankohn1 · 2019-08-11 · in IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat
  16. …domain. And then external-dns will go manage Route53 DNS records (also works with the goog). https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns A similar thing happens for ssl certs from LetsEncrypt https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manage…
    comment by gobengo · 2018-11-16 · in Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean
  17. …for cross-cluster service discovery. There are also apps like ExternalDNS that'll do it for you: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns
    comment by manigandham · 2018-03-22 · in Google Cloud Armor
  18. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: Is there a good solution for using AWS ALB to connect a k8s cluster?
    story by online2offline · 2017-12-12 · 1 comment
  19. For Route53 integration, have you looked at https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns ? (or its progenitors Mate and DNS-Controller) Looks like CoreOS just contributed an ALB Ingress implementation:…
    comment by theptip · 2017-05-29 · in UpCloud+Kontena – all Suomi (Finnish) love
  20. https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns
    comment by ZalandoTech · 2017-04-30 · in Show HN: External-Dns (config External DNS Servers for K8s Ingresses and Services)
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    ExternalDNS: Synchronize Exposed Kubernetes Services & Ingresses w/DNS Providers
    story by ZalandoTech · 2017-04-15 · 0 comments
  22. …DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services. ( https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns ) We also have several older Postgres-related tools listed here: http://zalando.github.io/…
    comment by ZalandoTech · 2017-04-14 · in Patroni: A Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper, Etcd, or Consul