HighWayToHell
Quick post promoting HighWayToHell, a project I posted to GitHub recently, aiming to provide with a self-hosted Route53 alternative, that would include DNSSEC support.
Assuming you may not be familiar with Route53, the main idea is to generate DNS zones configuration based on conditionals.
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We would then try to provide with a lightweight web service to manage DNS zones, their records, health checks and notifications. Contrarily to Route53: we would implement DNSSEC support.
HighWayToHell distribution
HighWayToHell works with a Cassandra cluster storing persistent records, and at least one Redis server (pubsub, job queues, ephemeral tokens). Operations are split in four workers: one in charge of running health checks, an other one of sending notifications based on health checks last returned values and user-defined thresholds, a third one is in charge of generating DNS (bind or NSD) zone include files and zones configurations, the last worker implements an API gateway providing with a lightweight web app.
Theoretically, it could all run on one server, although hosting a DNS setup, you’ll definitely want to involve at least a pair of name servers, and probably want to use separate instances running your web frontend, or dealing with health checks.
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Having created your first account, registered your first domain, you would be able to define your first health checks and DNS records.
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You may grant third-party users with a specific roles accessing resources from your domains. You may enable 2FA on your accounts using apps such as Authy. You may create and manage tokens – to be used alongside our curl-based shell client, …
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This is a couple weeks old project I didn’t have much time to work on, yet it should be exhaustive and reliable enough to fulfill my original expectations. Eventually, I’ll probably add an API-less management CLI: there still is at least one step, starting your database, that still requires inserting records manually, …
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Any remark, bug-report or PR most welcome. Especially CSS contributions – as this is one of the rare topic I can’t bear having to deal with.