generate-zone-file.sh.md

generate-zone-file.sh

This shell script further automates the process of generating a DNS zone file, and optionally, pushing it to Route 53.

It requires that you have a GitHub repository, like this, with all of your DNS records in a file named zone-file-generator.php. The repo can be public or private (assuming you have access).

Requirements

• php-cli (v7.0 or newer)
• git
• awscli (if using the deploy to Route 53 feature)

Command-line parameters

• domain - the domain the zone file is being generated for. This must be a fully qualified domain name that ends with a period (i.e. example.com.)
• github_repo - the GitHub repository that contains your zone-file-generator.php file (i.e. github-username/github-repo-name)
• argX (optional) - you can pass up to 32 custom arguments to zone-file-generator.php. These will be accessible in PHP using the $argv[] array (indexes 3-34), and the values can be pretty much whatever you want. This feature is useful when the output of your zone-file-generator.php script is dynamic

Example

Without custom arguments

#!/bin/sh

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evan-klein/zone-file/master/generate-zone-file.sh > ~/generate-zone-file.sh
sh ~/generate-zone-file.sh example.com. github-username/github-repo-name
rm ~/generate-zone-file.sh

With custom arguments

#!/bin/sh

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evan-klein/zone-file/master/generate-zone-file.sh > ~/generate-zone-file.sh
sh ~/generate-zone-file.sh example.com. github-username/github-repo-name www1 node5
rm ~/generate-zone-file.sh