This project provides a DNS-F client based on CoreDNS, which can help export those registed services on Nacos as DNS domain. DNS-F client is a dedicated agent process(side car) beside the application's process to foward the service discovery DNS domain query request to Nacos.

Quic Start

To build and run nacos coredns plugin, the OS must be Linux or Mac. And also, golang environments(GOPATH,GOROOT,GOHOME) must be configured correctly.

Build

git clone https://github.com/nacos-group/nacos-coredns-plugin.git 
cp nacos-coredns-plugin/bin/build.sh ~/
cd ~/
sh build.sh

Configuration

To run nacos coredns plugin, you need a configuration file. A possible file may be as bellow:

. {
    nacos {
        upstream /etc/resolv.conf
        nacos_server 127.0.0.1
        nacos_server_port 8848
   }
 }

• upstream: domain names those not registered in nacos will be forwarded to upstream.
• nacos_server: Ips of nacos server, seperated by comma if there are two or more nacos servers
• nacos_server_port: Nacos server port

Run

• Firstly, you need to deploy nacos server. Here
• Secondly, register service on nacos.
• Then run $GOPATH/src/coredns/coredns -conf $path_to_corefile -dns.port $dns_port

Test

dig $nacos_service_name @127.0.0.1 -p $dns_port