route53 cookbook

Updates Amazon Web Service's Route 53 (DNS) service.

Amazon Route 53 can be used as DNS for any registered domain name. This cookbook provides a single resource route53_record that allows you to create or delete records.

Requirements

Platforms

• all platforms where the aws-sdk works

Chef

• Chef 12.9+

Cookbooks

• none

Usage

route53_record "create a record" do
  name  "test"
  value "16.8.4.2"
  type  "A"

  # The following are for routing policies
  weight "1" (optional)
  set_identifier "my-instance-id" (optional-must be unique)
  zone_id               node[:route53][:zone_id]
  aws_access_key_id     node[:route53][:aws_access_key_id]
  aws_secret_access_key node[:route53][:aws_secret_access_key]
  overwrite true
  fail_on_error false (set to true to report failure to Chef)
  action :create
end

NOTE: If you do not specify aws credentials, it will attempt to use the AWS IAM Role assigned to the instance instead.

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Resources Overview

route53_record

Parameters

• name Required. String. - name of the domain or subdomain.
• value String Array - value appropriate to the type.. for type 'A' value would be an IP address in IPv4 format for example.
• type Required. String DNS record type
• ttl Integer default: 3600 - time to live, the amount of time in seconds to cache information about the record
• weight Optional. String. - a value that determines the proportion of DNS queries that will use this record for the response. Valid options are between 0-255. NOT CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED
• set_identifier Optional . String. - a value that uniquely identifies record in the group of weighted record sets
• geo_location String.
• geo_location_country String
• geo_location_continent String
• geo_location_subdivision String
• set_identifier String
• zone_id String
• aws_access_key_id String
• aws_secret_access_key String
• aws_region String default: 'us-east-1'
• overwrite [true false] default: true
• alias_target Optional. Hash. - Associated with Amazon 'alias' type records. The hash contents varies depending on the type of target the alias points to.
• mock [true false] default: false
• fail_on_error [true false] default: false

ChefSpec Matcher

This Cookbook includes a Custom Matcher for testing the route53_record LWRP with ChefSpec.

To utilize this Custom Matcher use the following test your spec:

expect(chef_run).to create_route53_record('example.com')

Development Notes

A useful reference for the structure of the AWS route53 requests: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/API_ChangeResourceRecordSets_Requests.html#API_ChangeResourceRecordSets_RequestBasicSyntax

And the relevant AWS-SDK doc: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkforruby/api/Aws/Route53/Client.html#change_resource_record_sets-instance_method

License & Authors

Copyright:: 2011-2016, Heavy Water Software
Copyright:: 2016-2017, Chef Software

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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