lxfontes / droplet-lb

Exposes your Digital Ocean's Inventory as DNS entries

droplet-lb

This is an IPv4 DNS server which exposes your Digital Ocean's inventory as regular 'A' records.

How does it work?

Give it a dns zone ( droplet-lb by default ) and query your instances via DNS. Example:

This environment has 2 web servers ( web-01 and web-02 ), droplet-lb will use the first part of the DNS name as a prefix during name lookup.

~ ❯❯❯ dig @localhost -p 8053 web.droplet-lb A +noall +answer

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @localhost -p 8053 web.droplet-lb A +noall +answer
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
web.droplet-lb.   30  IN  A 104.131.52.84
web.droplet-lb.   30  IN  A 159.203.175.202

A background task will refresh the list of instances every 60 seconds.

Setup

Easiest way to set this up:

• Get an Ubuntu droplet
• Install nginx
• Download the linux binary from the releases page, or go get github.com/lxfontes/droplet-lb
• Get a Personal Access Token
• Well.... run droplet-lb with your token and domain
• For a load-balancer setup, use the file nginx.conf as starting point
• You can also forward a zone to unbound, dnsmasq and others

Distributed setup

• Setup a dedicated instance for droplet-lb, binding to your private IP
• Setup multiple nginx instances, setting resolver to the proper droplet-lb instance
• Add Floating-IPs to the mix