DigitalOcean DNS Driver Documentation¶
DigitalOcean is an American cloud provider based in New York City with data centers in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Singapore, Frankfurt, Toronto, and Bangalore.
Instantiating a driver¶
The DigitalOcean DNS driver only supports the v2.0 API requiring a Personal Access Token to initialize as the key.
Instantiating the driver¶
from libcloud.dns.types import Provider
from libcloud.dns.providers import get_driver
cls = get_driver(Provider.DIGITAL_OCEAN)
driver = cls(key='access token')
API Docs¶
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class
libcloud.dns.drivers.digitalocean.
DigitalOceanDNSDriver
(key, secret=None, secure=True, host=None, port=None, api_version=None, region=None, ex_per_page=200, **kwargs)[source]¶ -
connectionCls
¶ alias of
libcloud.common.digitalocean.DigitalOcean_v2_Connection
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create_record
(name, zone, type, data, extra=None)[source]¶ Create a new record.
Parameters: - name (
str
) – Record name without the domain name (e.g. www). Note: If you want to create a record for a base domain name, you should specify empty string (‘’) for this argument. - zone (
Zone
) – Zone where the requested record is created. - type (
RecordType
) – DNS record type (A, AAAA, …). - data (
str
) – Data for the record (depends on the record type). - extra (
dict
) – Extra attributes for MX and SRV. (Depends on record) {“priority” : 0, “port” : 443, “weight” : 100}
Return type: Record
- name (
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create_zone
(domain, type='master', ttl=None, extra=None)[source]¶ Create a new zone.
Parameters: - domain (
str
) – Zone domain name (e.g. example.com) - type (
str
) – Zone type (master / slave) (does nothing). - ttl (
int
) – TTL for new records. (does nothing) - extra (
dict
) – Extra attributes (to set ip). (optional) Note: This can be used to set the default A record with {“ip” : “IP.AD.DR.ESS”} otherwise 127.0.0.1 is used
Return type: Zone
- domain (
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delete_record
(record)[source]¶ Delete a record.
Parameters: record ( Record
) – Record to delete.Return type: bool
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delete_zone
(zone)[source]¶ Delete a zone.
Note: This will delete all the records belonging to this zone.
Parameters: zone ( Zone
) – Zone to delete.Return type: bool
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ex_get_event
(event_id)¶ Get an event object
Parameters: event_id ( str
) – Event id (required)
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export_zone_to_bind_format
(zone)¶ Export Zone object to the BIND compatible format.
Parameters: zone ( Zone
) – Zone to export.Returns: Zone data in BIND compatible format. Return type: str
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export_zone_to_bind_zone_file
(zone, file_path)¶ Export Zone object to the BIND compatible format and write result to a file.
Parameters: - zone (
Zone
) – Zone to export. - file_path (
str
) – File path where the output will be saved.
- zone (
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get_record
(zone_id, record_id)[source]¶ Return a Record instance.
Parameters: - zone_id (
str
) – ID of the required zone - record_id (
str
) – ID of the required record
Return type: Record
- zone_id (
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get_zone
(zone_id)[source]¶ Return a Zone instance.
Parameters: zone_id ( str
) – ID of the required zoneReturn type: Zone
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iterate_records
(zone)¶ Return a generator to iterate over records for the provided zone.
Parameters: zone ( Zone
) – Zone to list records for.Return type: generator
ofRecord
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iterate_zones
()¶ Return a generator to iterate over available zones.
Return type: generator
ofZone
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list_record_types
()¶ Return a list of RecordType objects supported by the provider.
Returns: list
ofRecordType
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list_records
(zone)[source]¶ Return a list of records for the provided zone.
Parameters: zone ( Zone
) – Zone to list records for.Returns: list
ofRecord
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update_record
(record, name=None, type=None, data=None, extra=None)[source]¶ Update an existing record.
Parameters: - record (
Record
) – Record to update. - name (
str
) – Record name without the domain name (e.g. www). (Ignored) Note: The value is pulled from the record being updated - type (
RecordType
) – DNS record type (A, AAAA, …). (Ignored) Note: Updating records does not support changing type so this value is ignored - data (
str
) – Data for the record (depends on the record type). - extra (
dict
) – (optional) Extra attributes (driver specific).
Return type: Record
- record (
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update_zone
(zone, domain, type='master', ttl=None, extra=None)¶ Update an existing zone.
Parameters: - zone (
Zone
) – Zone to update. - domain (
str
) – Zone domain name (e.g. example.com) - type (
str
) – Zone type (master / slave). - ttl (
int
) – TTL for new records. (optional) - extra (
dict
) – Extra attributes (driver specific). (optional)
Return type: Zone
- zone (
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