[chef] Re: Question regarding dynamic DNS and IP addresses

[Eric Herot < >]

We rolled our own for use in EC2:

https://github.com/evertrue/ec2dnsserver-cookbook

But you are encouraged to use/contribute/criticize it.  The documentation is decidedly lacking (for now) but the defaults will get you 90 percent of the way there (it is intended to be used with a wrapper cookbook).  This was designed to work with VPC but it should work in other contexts.  Basically it uses the Fog gem to build a zone file from the name tags in your EC2 environment.  We have separate servers for "prod" and "stage" VPC subnets, but that shouldn't be a requirement.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to port it to other cloud environments.  It's just a matter of switching out a few API calls (Fog supports many other cloud providers).

On Jan 25, 2014, at 4:54 PM, Justin Franks < "> > wrote:

Hi OpsCode mailing list people,

Don't want to reinvent the wheel with home grown scripts built from scratch. How are people out there in Chef land automating DNS in cloud environments? Something spins up at random, it's IP is auto-injected into DNS along with some auto-generated hostname. Also the reverse. Something is torn down and it's DNS entry auto removed.
Looking for some slick tools and ideas.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

 

Justin Franks

Lead Operations Engineer

SaaS, Cloud, Data Centers & Infrastructure

Lithium Technologies, Inc
225 Bush St., 15^th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
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