Skip to main content

Update BIND nameserver zone with Docker hosts via DNS Updates.

Project description

Update BIND nameserver zone with Docker hosts via DNS Updates.

Usage

Docker HostDNS can be run by docker-hostdns wrapper script or directly with python -m docker_hostdns.

usage: docker-hostdns [-h] [--zone ZONE] [--dns-server DNS_SERVER]
                   [--dns-key-secret DNS_KEY_SECRET]
                   [--dns-key-name DNS_KEY_NAME] [--daemonize PIDFILE]
                   [--verbose] [--syslog]

Update BIND nameserver zone with Docker hosts via DNS Updates.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --zone ZONE           Dns zone to update, defaults to "docker".
  --dns-server DNS_SERVER
                        Address of DNS server which will be updated, defaults
                        to 127.0.0.1.
  --dns-key-secret DNS_KEY_SECRET
                        DNS Server key secret for use when updating zone. Use
                        '-' to read from stdin.
  --dns-key-name DNS_KEY_NAME
                        DNS Server key name for use when updating zone.
  --daemonize PIDFILE, -d PIDFILE
                        Daemonize after start and store PID at given path.
  --verbose, -v         Give more output. Option is additive, and can be used
                        up to 3 times.
  --syslog              Enable logging to syslog.

The --daemonize options is only available when you have installed python-daemon3 package.

Example named.conf zone configuration with key auth:

include "/etc/bind/docker.key";

zone "docker" in {
    type master;
    file "/var/bind/dyn/docker.zone";
    allow-update {
      key "docker-key";
    };
};

docker.key can be generated by:

rndc-confgen -a -c docker.key -k docker-key

And then:

echo 'my base64 key secret' | docker-hostdns --dns-key-name docker-key --dns-key-secret -

Host names

Host name is created by using container name and slugifying & trimming it. So /example2::docker will result with example2-docker. In case of name duplication a “-<number>” will be appended, resulting with eg. example2-docker-1

Following dns records are created for each container, given example hostname and docker zone:

  • IPv4: example.docker

  • IPv4: *.example.docker

  • IPv6: example.docker

  • IPv6: *.example.docker

  • TXT: _container.docker with container name as value

TXT record is used for keeping track of added hosts so when app is stopped or resumed it keeps its state.

Custom host names

You can set custom host name by using container label pl.glorpen.hostname, its content will be used as container name.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

docker-hostdns-1.0.tar.gz (6.1 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

docker_hostdns-1.0-py3-none-any.whl (9.6 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Python 3

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page