Designate, a DNSaaS component for OpenStack

Designate is a multi-tenant DNSaaS service for OpenStack. It provides a REST API with integrated Keystone authentication. It can be configured to auto-generate records based on Nova and Neutron actions. Designate supports a variety of DNS servers including Bind9 and PowerDNS.

• Install Guide
• API Reference
• Openstack CLI
• Getting Involved
• DevStack
• DNS Server Driver Support Matrix
• DNS Server Plugin Documentation
• tempest

This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree.

Developer Documentation

• Architecture
• OpenStack Integrations
• Development Environment on Ubuntu
• Guru Meditation Reports
• Source Code Documentation
• Monasca-Statsd based Metrics

User Guide

• How To Manage PTR Records
• Secondary Zones
• Deprecated REST API Documentation

Administration Guide

• DNS Server Pools
• Pool Scheduler
• Troubleshooting
• How To Configure Multiple Pools
• Blacklisting Domain Names
• Managing Top Level Domain Names
• View and Manage Quotas
• Designate Manage CLI
• Notifications
• Production Guidelines

Upgrades

• Upgrading to Kilo from Juno
• Upgrading to Mitaka from Liberty
• Upgrading to Newton from Mitaka
• Upgrading to Ocata from Newton

Other Modules

• python-designateclient
• designate-dashboard
• designate-tempest-plugin
• designate-specs
• designate-msdnsagent

Other Resources

• Related Links
• Related Projects

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page