digitalocean-domain-records

Description

Provision a new A record on Digital Ocean.

Getting Started

Setup

Generate new read and write api keys at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens

Clone this repo, rename .env.example to .env, put your api keys in. ROOT_IP should be the ip that you wish to send traffic (the IP of a droplet). The ROOT_DOMAINNAME should be the root domain.

Usage

With npm

Install the cli

npm install -g digitalocean-domain-records

then either run from the cli, passing environment variables:

ROOT_IP=1.2.3.4 ROOT_DOMAINNAME=example.com DO_KEY_WRITE=abcdefghijklmnop DO_KEY_READ=abcdefghijklmnop digitalocean-domain-records --name testing

Or create a config file by creating an .env file that looks like this:

ROOT_IP=1.2.3.4
ROOT_DOMAINNAME=example.com
DO_KEY_READ=abcdefghijklmnop
DO_KEY_WRITE=abcdefghijklmnop

Then run this in the same directory:

digitalocean-domain-records --name testing

From source

Clone this repo, rename .env.example to .env, put your api keys in. ROOT_IP should be the ip that you wish to send traffic (the IP of a droplet). The ROOT_DOMAINNAME should be the root domain.

Given a .env file of:

ROOT_IP=1.2.3.4
ROOT_DOMAIN=example.com
DO_KEY_READ=asdasdasdakmsdlkamlsdkmalkmsdlaksmlkamsldkmasda
DO_KEY_WRITE=askmlaksmdlkamsdlkamsldkmalskdmlaksmdlkamsldkm

Running this:

node index.js --name tester

Should create tester.example.com and point it to 1.2.3.4. You can confirm this by viewing your networking setup at: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/domains/example.com (replace example.com in the url with your ROOT_DOMAINNAME.