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Show HN: OctoDNS, Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers (octodns.readthedocs.io)

31 points by gardnr ↗ HN
After the major outages from AWS and Cloudflare, I began wondering how to make my own services more resilient.

Using nameservers from different providers is doable but a bit tricky to manage. OctoDNS helps automate keeping the zones synced so AWS, Cloudflare, etc. are all serving the same information.

In an age of centralized infrastructure, we can exploit the capabilities from the origins of the decentralized internet.

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hcaz
I compared OctoDNS with DNSControl (https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol) a few years ago and settled with DNSControl because it had more providers out of the box.

But using either of these tools to have your DNS redeploy-able to a new provider is a great idea for resiliency.

linkdd
What I like about OctoDNS is its integration with the NetBox DNS plugin.