amazon_dns

Provides a set of LWRPs to manage Amazon Route 53 entries.

This works as a drop-in replacement for the official route53 cookbook, but adds a few features.

Platforms

Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 6.0.6.

Requirements

Chef 11

Examples

# Create a zone for example.com
amazon_dns_zone "example.com" do
  aws_access_key_id     "ASDASDASDASD"
  aws_secret_access_key "GSDFGSDFDFGF"
end


# Add subdomain1 to example.com
amazon_dns_record "subdomain1" do
  value "192.168.1.1"
  domain "example.com"
  aws_access_key_id     "ASDASDASDASD"
  aws_secret_access_key "GSDFGSDFDFGF"
end

# Let's add a CNAME record
amazon_dns_record "mail" do
  value "ghs.google.com"
  domain "example.com"
  type "CNAME"
  ttl 86400
  aws_access_key_id     "ASDASDASDASD"
  aws_secret_access_key "GSDFGSDFDFGF"
end

# Create an MX record after specifing credentials via node attribute
node.set[:amazon_dns][:aws_access_key_id] = "ASDASDASDASD"
node.set[:amazon_dns][:aws_secret_access_key] = "GSDFGSDFDFGF"

amazon_dns_record "example.com" do
  domain "example.com"
  type "MX"
  value "1 aspmx.l.google.com"
end

# Instead of replacing the value of a record, we can add to it.
# Here, we create an NS record (if it doesn't exist), or add to the existing value (if it does exist).
amazon_dns_record "nsrecord" do
  domain "example.com"
  addvalue "subdomain1.example.com."
  type "NS"
  aws_access_key_id     "ASDASDASDASD"
  aws_secret_access_key "GSDFGSDFDFGF"
end

# Add another value to our NS record, after this the value will be:
# subdomain1.example.com.
# subdomain2.example.com.
amazon_dns_record "nsrecord" do
  domain "example.com"
  addvalue "subdomain2.example.com."
  type "NS"
  aws_access_key_id     "ASDASDASDASD"
  aws_secret_access_key "GSDFGSDFDFGF"
end

Differences from Route53 cookbook

• Ability to add zones
• No need to specify zone_id, amazon_dns will look it up for you
• Alias record support
• Ability to add to an existing record without overwriting it (addvalue)

Authorization

You can either set the node attributes node[:amazon_dns][:aws_access_key_id] and node[:amazon_dns][:aws_secret_access_key], or provide the same values with every resource call. See examples above.

Alias records

Alias records are A or AAAA records that point to S3 Website Endpoints, Elastic Load Balancers or Route 53 record sets in the same zone. To utilize alias records, set the alias_target attribute of the amazon_dns_record resource to a hash containing the keys :dns_name for the endpoint, and :hosted_zone_id for the hosted zone id.

Recipes

amazon_dns::default

Installs the fog gem, which is needed for the LWRPs.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
aws_access_key_id	Access key ID, in case you don't want to specify it every time you call a resource	String
aws_secret_access_key	Secret access key, in case you don't want to specify it every time you call a resource	String

Resources / Providers

amazon_dns_zone

Creates a new Route53 zone.

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
name	name of the zone / domain	String	name
comment	Optional comment, will show up in the web interface	String	""
aws_access_key_id	Your AWS access key ID	String
aws_secret_access_key	Your AWS secret access key	String

Actions

Name	Description	Default
create	Create the zone	yes

amazon_dns_record

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
name	Name of the dns entry, can be "subdomain" or "subdomain.example.com"	String	name
domain	Name of the domain to add the entry to (set this or zone_id)	String
zone_id	Zone_id of the zone to add the entry to (set this or domain)	String
value	Value for the DNS record. Not needed for alias records	String, Array
addvalue	Add this to the existing value (or create new with this value). Cannot be used with "value"	String, Array
alias_target	Targets for alias records. Hash that needs they keys :dns_name and :hosted_zone_id	Hash
type	DNS record type	String	A
ttl	Time to live	Integer, String	3600
weight	For weighted record sets	Integer, String
aws_access_key_id	Your AWS access key ID	String
aws_secret_access_key	Your AWS secret access key	String

Actions

Name	Description	Default
create_or_update	Create or update the record	yes