route53 cookbook

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

Requirements

Platforms

all platforms where the aws-sdk works

Chef

Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

none

Usage

include_recipe "route53"

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
  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.

kitchen converge

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, Chef Software

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

AnanthRavi / route53