DNS Provider for CloudStack

[wido]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

API
Management Server

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

main

SUMMARY

My idea is as follows:

• A new framework is addedd: Authorative DNS
• This allows for admins and end-users to manage DNS zones
• Different providers implement different APIs, examples:
  • PowerDNS through it's API
  • Public DNS providers like NS1, rcodezero, Gandi, CloudFlare, etc
  • Your local DNS which applies to your environment

These drivers will support various functionality and advertise their capabilities or limitations:

• Create and delete zones
• Manage records in these zones
• Advertise which record types are supported
• Limit the amount of records in a zone (if any)
• Set a limitation on how low the TTL can be

Per account and domain we can then set limits:

• Amount of zones to create
• Amount of creates per zone

This would allow for a couple of things:

• End-users can manage their DNS via the same API as they manage their cloud resources
• End-users can manage DNS via the CloudStack UI
• We can directly create public DNS records for newly created instances
  • You assign a DNS zone to a CloudStack zone
  • Upon VM creation a record is created
    i-xx-yy-vm.myzone.tld A 1.2.3.4
    i-xx-yy-vm.myzone.tld AAAA 2001:db8:af31::61
  • When the VM is removed the DNS records are removed
• Console Proxy and Secondary Storage VMs can point to a working hostname instead of IP-address
  • We can then also support IPv6 for the CP and SS
• We can set the PTR (Reverse DNS) record for a VM after boot

[rohityadavcloud]

+1 a framework - plugin model would be great!

[kasimon]

Maybe some inspiration can be taken from OpenStack's Designate component, which serves a similar purpose.

[weizhouapache]

good idea to have a DNS framework !

PS: it looks ACS supports globodns (https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/main/plugins/network-elements/globodns). however I doubt if it works ..

[wido]

good idea to have a DNS framework !

PS: it looks ACS supports globodns (https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/main/plugins/network-elements/globodns). however I doubt if it works ..

Yes, but that has a very limited scope. I think that as @kasimon writes, something like OpenStack's Designate is something we should want. Let me look into that.

I will work on this for the coming months, but I don't expect any results prior to summer 2025 (Time restricted).

[rohityadavcloud]

@wido have you done or started any work on this yet?

[wido]

@wido have you done or started any work on this yet?

Yes, slowly I'm working on this one.