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.
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