dns question??

[Mike Wright]

On 01/31/2016 02:03 PM, bruce wrote:
> Per mike, and others.
>
> If I understand. I can purchase a domain name "foo.com" I can then use
> that name to have sub domains, which can then be applied to the
> "boxes" within the internal network. I'm assuming that there's no
> additional charge to use the "sub domains" but that these domains can
> then be applied to the target instances/boxes of a digitialocean,
> mapped to the ip address of the actual instance as defined when the
> droplet/vm is created.
>
> So as an example
> I could buy foo.com
>
> name                   ip address
> foo.com               1.2.3.4
> nfs.foo.com          1.2.3.5
> mysql.foo.com      1.2.3.6
> app1.foo.com        1.2.3.7

Absolutely. I use subdomains all the time.

> etc... (there would be a bunch more)
>
> with the name/mapping performed via dns of something like a cloudflare..
>
> Is this getting close to being correct?
>
> Thanks guys..
>
> ps. once I get this nailed down, the process will be to auto spin up a
> given instance, as well as to perform the dns updates, to create
> additional instances to perform the testing for the overall project.
>
> At that point, I'll look into chef/puppet/ansible/shell scripts/etc to
> ease the process..