Meetings/Designate

DNSaaS Meetings

The DNSaaS team holds a weekly IRC meeting in #openstack-meeting-alt on Wednesdays at 17:00 UTC

Meeting logs are available at http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/designate/

Next meeting

Date of next meeting Wednesday 9th April, 17:00 UTC

Agenda

• Review action items from last week (See Meeting Logs for previous week)
• Specific Items:
  • DNSpy update
  • Clarify details on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/designate/+spec/mdns-structured-rdata
    • My understanding is summarized here.
• Open Discussion

Future meetings

Possible Agenda Topics:

• Incubation ReDiscussion (Delay to post TC policy changes)
• Incubation Vote

Designate Workshop - Openstack Summit, May 2014

Designate Installation Instructions - DRAFT

1. Verify VM and Openstack core components are installed and correctly configured

1. verify python environment is installed

   pip: <cmd>

   virtualenv: <cmd>

2. verify RabbitMQ Server is installed and configured correctly:
3. verify Glance Service is installed and configured correctly:
4. verify Glance Client is installed and configured correctly:
5. verify Keystone Service is installed and configured correctly:
6. verify Keystone Client is installed and configured correctly:
7. verify Neutron Service is installed and configured correctly:
8. verify Neutron Client is installed and configured correctly:
9. verify Nova Service is installed and configured correctly:
10. verify Nova Client is installed and configured correctly:
11. verify MySQL is installed: <cmd>
12. verify MySQl is configured correctly:

2. Install Designate

1. Install system package dependencies

   $ apt-get build-dep python-lxml

2. Clone the Designate repo off of Stackforge

   $ git clone https://github.com/stackforge/designate.git

   $ cd designate

3. Setup virtual env

   $ virtualenv --no-site-packages .venv

   $ . .venv/bin/activate

4. Install Designate and its dependencies

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt -r test-requirements.txt

   $ python setup.py develop

5. Copy sample config files to edit

   $ cd etc/designate

   $ ls *.sample | while read f; do cp $f $(echo $f | sed "s/.sample$//g"); done

6. Install the DNS server, PowerDNS
7. Grant sudo permissions if you intend to run Designate as a non-root user
8. Make the directory for Designate’s log files

3. Configure Designate

1. editor (vi) designate.conf

6. Exercise the Designate API

Sample Helpful commands below in "Other Designate Workshop Command Lines"