A small, easy-to-use, Python implementation of dynamic DNS update agent.

This implementation uses Apache Libcloud and Google Cloud DNS to provide no-ip-like user experience using a robust cloud-DNS service such as Google.

• Google Cloud user account
• A GCP project with enabled billing
• An active domain name with a corresponding Zone name configured in the Google Cloud Platform Console
• Credentials with the proper DNS permission

THIS SECTION WILL BE UPDATED SOON TO PROVIDE MORE DETAILED EXPLENATION OF HOW TO CREATE CREDENTIALS

From Google Cloud Platform's service accounts management, add a service account with a DNS Administrator role and write down the Service Account ID. After the account is created, create a corresponding key in a JSON file format.

You'll be using the Service Accoung ID and the JSON key-file to access and update your cloud zone.

• Clone the repo using git clone git@github.com:orpolaczek/libcloud-dynamic-dns.git
• Place the JSON key-file you've downloaded from Google under the config folder.
• Open and edit the config/__init__.py file and update all it's fields to match your Google Service Account and Cloud Project Name.

The config file:

class Config:
    DNS_USER_ID = "SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@YOUR_PROJECT.iam.gserviceaccount.com" # The GCP Service Account ID
    DNS_KEY = "config/key.json" 		# The path to the JSON-key file (relative to the project's root)
    DNS_PROJECT_NAME = "YOUR_PROJECT" 	# Your Google Cloud Platform project name
    
# Example settings for creating an test.mydomain.com A record that points to your current IP
    A_RECORD_TTL_SECONDS = 3600 	# The desired TTL for your DNS record
    A_RECORD_NAME = "test" 		# The record name
    A_RECORD_ZONE_NAME = "mydomain.com." # The domain zone name (usually- the domain with an ending `.`)
    

• Install the dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the Python update agent using python update_dns.py

After running the Python file, a successfull run would look as the following:

➜  libcloud-dynamic-dns git:(master) ✗ python update_dns.py
Setting A record: test.mydomain.com. to point: 8.8.8.8
SUCCESS

In order to run the update agent periodically - use a cronjob :)

Please feel free to send feedback to orpolaczek+libcloudddns@gmail.com .

If you're willing to contribute changes/additions you've made to this code feel free to create a PR. There's always room for improvement!

This implementation of dynamic DNS using Libcloud is provided under MIT license.

Apache Libcloud is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information, please see LICENSE and NOTICE files on Apache Libcloud's project.