PowerDNS Docker Container

This container is based on psitrax/powerdns. Updated, and added arm64 as a target ARCH.

Small Alpine based Image
MySQL (default), Postgres, SQLite and Bind 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

Usage

# Start a MySQL Container
$ docker run -d \
  --name pdns-mysql \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret \
  -v $PWD/mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql \
  mariadb:10.1

$ 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 \
  sgaduuw/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

PowerDNS Configuration:

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

License

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

Maintainer

Eelco Wesemann dockerhub@init1.nl

Credits

Christoph Wiechert wio@psitrax.de Original
Mathias Kaufmann me@stei.gr: Reduced image size

sgaduuw / docker-powerdns