Graham Hayes / HP

➔ @grahamhayes

➔ mugsie on freenode

➔ Designate-Core

➔ Developer / Ops in HP Cloud

➔ Run a production instance of designate - in use by

the public

ˈdɛzɪɡneɪt/officially give a specified status or name to."the Wye Valley is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty"or"173.194.121.0 is google.com"

designateverb

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

Main business logic for designate

Controls nearly all access to the database

Horizontally Scalable

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

New component

Used to manage pools of servers (surprisingly)

Horizontally Scalable

Does direct creates and deletes for zones

Coordinates updates to zones (Records, SOA etc)

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

New component

Horizontally Scalable

Serves information from the Database to DNS Servers

Talks the DNS Protocol

Not designed for end users to use (hence ‘Mini’)

Pools

Customers / Users:I Want:

➔ To use mycompany.dev

➔ To make sure no one else can see my DNS records

➔ To have different DNS entries inside my VPC / Neutron Network

➔ To sell different tiers of service

➔ Bind9 to work

➔ Scale out

CentralAPI DB

Pool Manager

Mini DNS

Customer Facing DNS

Servers

Backend

Mid Cycle Recap

Links

http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/designate/

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/designate/

http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Designate

http://launchpad.net/designate

irc://irc.freenode.net/openstack-dns

Questions?

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