Designate, a DNSaaS component for OpenStack

Designate provides DNSaaS services for OpenStack:

• REST API for domain & record management
• Multi-tenant support
• Integrated with Keystone for authentication
• Framework in place to integrate with Nova and Neutron notifications (for auto-generated records)
• Support for PowerDNS and Bind9 out of the box

This document describes Designate for users, operation teams and contributors of the project.

This documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional documentation on Designate may also be found on the OpenStack wiki.

General documentation

New to Designate? Start here:

• Architecture
• Production Architecture
• Glossary

User documentation

• Blacklisting Domain Names
• How To Create and Manage Domains
• How To Manage PTR Records
• How To Configure Multiple Pools
• View and Manage Quotas
• Secondary Zones
• Managing Top Level Domain Names
• REST API Documentation

Operations documentation

Install Guides

• Installing Kilo on Ubuntu
• Installing Liberty on Ubuntu

Upgrade Guides

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

Designate in general

• Operations FAQ
• Backend Documentation
• Configuration Options
• Designate Manage CLI
• Guru Meditation Reports
• Integrations
• Memory caching
• Pools
• Production Guidelines
• Service Statuses
• Notifications
• DNS Server Driver Support Matrix
• metrics

Developer Documentation

• Getting Involved
• Developer Guidelines
• Source code documentation
• Development Environment on Ubuntu
• DevStack
• Functional tests
• Tempest

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page