We have our own dns api at RimuHosting, and use FQDN's for instance names, so I could already set up DNS automatically if I wanted to. However we would obviously need to be authoritative for the domain names to make any difference. Due the the large variety of DNS providers among our customers, I'm not sure how this would work. (Although a decent amount of people use our service, that might only be 20%, although I'm not sure)

I think that as a user of the Delta Cloud api, I can make my own calls to setup DNS if I so wish. I know its not a generic way, however individual users are more likely to have there DNS with one provider (possibly), and therefore are not in need of a generic solution.

-Ivan

2009/10/26 Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com>
Hi Jason.

Yes amazon have a few things like that, including elastic IPs etc..

But what I was more interested in was from the application deployment
perspective, no so much infrastructure: ie I would like to deploy apps
but also setup the preferred names/dns entries for them in a
simplified way. So if I have a domain setup:

myco.com - then via deltacloud I can create an instance and bind it to
whizzbang.myco.com etc... should a suitable DNS service be available.
Amazon I think returns names already, Rackspace does public IPs etc..
(this is all about the public address part of deltacloud).

To be honest I am not entirely sure what form this would take, its
more a "desire" from a users point of view !

This would have to be an addition to the drivers, such that you could
request a binding to a name be made (which may be ignored).
However, I am not sure if enough cloud providers have the facilities
to do this to make it worthwhile putting in the driver part of
deltacloud (otherwise it could have separate drivers for the various
ways people manage DNS).

Or perhaps deltacloud is not the place for this, and its really
something to be built on the top/side?

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jason Guiditta
<jason.guiditta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey All.
>>
>> One of the things which I would like to add in is the ability to pass
>> ing forward DNS details and let deltacloud take care of setting it up
>> against one of the public IPs when it knows it.
>> I am not really sure if this is a deltacloud thing - unfortunately it
>> looks like EC2 doesn't provide something like this for you (it has
>> elastic IPs, but that is kind of different), but rackspace does. There
>> are things like ez-ipupdate utilities that you can use to hook in to a
>> wide variety of public dyn DNS things, and of course private servers.
>>
>> Is this something of interest or appropriate to deltacloud? it is
>> certainly relevant to a lot of what some of us need to do, would be
>> nice to have it abstracted into some part of the drivers.
>>
>> Unfortunately, not much we can do about reverse DNS as it is up to who
>> owns the IPs, so with Amazon, I believe the term is "SOL", but at
>> least with forward resolution, that is something (no good for the
>> spammer though!).
>>
>> Thoughts? If people are interested, I might nock something up to see
>> how it might work.
>>
>> --
>> Michael D Neale
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> Michael, sorry for the delayed response.  I am not sure exactly what
> you have in mind here, but I talked to Hugh, and he said 'we want
> something similar to EC2 security groups' and that any dns goodness
> woudl be great to have.  If you wanted to nock something up,as you
> mentioned, it would be greatly appreciated, and probably easier to
> give feedback on (being something more concrete).
>
>
> --
>
> -j
>



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