erikhdynamic_dns: control DNS management without external services
Basically this has one recipe at this point, which installs a script which gets set in cron.
This script:
- Consults with a jsonip (or alike, server-side will be a part of this eventually) service to get the external IP of the host.
- Sends an nsupdate to a DNS server and updates an A record with that IP address.
This is a slightly modified version of the script blogged about here.
Recipe Information
The recipe is called dynamic_dns::install_nsupdate and it takes several attributes:
-
dns/hostname: the hostname to update with any IP address change. -
dns/server: the DNS server's address. -
dns/secret: the secret key used by nsupdate to authenticate with the DNS server. -
dns/zone: the zone to update on the DNS server. -
dns/jsonip_service: the json IP service url (default:http://jsonip.com)
Unless specified there are no defaults for any of these keys and the recipe
will raise ArgumentError for any missing keys before trying to do anything.
Trust me, this is in your best interest. :)
Future plans are to implement recipe tooling for the nginx/unicorn/rack side of this, but as of this writing this does not exist.
Constraints
Currently this recipe only supports ubuntu and debian -- likely due to package name differences. Happy to accept pull requests for other systems.
Contributing
- Fork the project
- Make your edits
- Be sure to not change anything in metadata.rb without prior permission.
- Send a pull request.
Author
Erik Hollensbe erik+chef@hollensbe.org