PowerDNS Docker Container

Small Alpine based image
MySQL/MariaDB backend included
DNSSEC support optional
Automatic MySQL database initialization
Latest PowerDNS version (if not pls file an issue)
Guardian process enabled
Graceful shutdown using pdns_control

Supported tags

Exact: i.e. 4.4.1: PowerDNS Version 4.4.1
4.0: PowerDNS Version 4.0.x, latest image build
4: PowerDNS Version 4.x.x, latest image build

Usage

# Start a MySQL Container
$ docker run -d \
  --name pdns-mysql \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret \
  -v $PWD/mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql \
  mariadb:10.5.12

$ docker run --name pdns \
  --link pdns-mysql:mysql \
  -p 53:53 \
  -p 53:53/udp \
  -e MYSQL_USER=root \
  -e MYSQL_PASS=supersecret \
  -e MYSQL_PORT=3306 \
  docker.io/freinet/powerdns \
    --cache-ttl=120 \
    --allow-axfr-ips=127.0.0.1,123.1.2.3

Configuration

Environment Configuration:

MySQL connection settings
- MYSQL_HOST=mysql
- MYSQL_USER=root
- MYSQL_PASS=root
- MYSQL_DB=pdns
- MYSQL_DNSSEC=no
To support docker secrets, use same variables as above with suffix _FILE.
Want to disable mysql initialization? Use MYSQL_AUTOCONF=false
DNSSEC is disabled by default, to enable use MYSQL_DNSSEC=yes
Want to use own config files? Mount a Volume to /etc/pdns/conf.d or simply overwrite /etc/pdns/pdns.conf
To run additional startup scripts from entrypoint.sh before starting PowerDNS, mount them into /entrypoint.d

PowerDNS Configuration:

Append the PowerDNS setting to the command as shown in the example above. See docker run --rm freinet/powerdns --help

License

GNU General Public License v2.0 applyies to PowerDNS and all files in this repository.

Maintainers

Sebastian Pitsch pitsch@freinet.de
Dominic Zöller zoeller@freinet.de

Credits

Christoph Wiechert wio@psitrax.de: Original Project which we forked from
Mathias Kaufmann me@stei.gr: Reduced image size

freinet-devops / docker-powerdns