Automatically create DNS records for GCE instances [35904549]

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Feature Request

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Description

jg...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Mar 31, 2014 12:59AM

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch a Google Compute Engine instance
2. Wait for it to launch
3. Create a DNS record manually

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: Not doing things manually.
Actual result: Having to do things manually.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Compute API v1, DNS API v1beta1

Please provide any additional information below.

When using ephemeral IPs for GCE instances, it would be desirable to have DNS A records automatically created in a Google Cloud DNS zone as soon as the ephemeral IP is bound to the instance. Instead, a developer must either poll the GCE API's instances.get method until the natIP field is populated, or add a startup script to the instance's image that performs a change request against the Google Cloud DNS API creating or updating the record(s) as needed.

I believe this is a common use case, wanting DNS records that map from (

instancename.example.com) to the current IP of instancename within a project.

Ideally a managed zone and record name would be added as an optional argument to the Compute API's instance.insert parameters.

Comments

mo...@google.com <mo...@google.com> #2Oct 15, 2014 08:23PM

Assigned to mo...@google.com.

I have forwarded this request to the engineering team. We will update this issue with any progress updates and a resolution.

Best Regards,
Josh Moyer
Google Cloud Platform Support

an...@futurefore.com <an...@futurefore.com> #3May 31, 2015 08:36PM

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[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #4Jul 16, 2015 01:40PM

Guys, nothing on this? I have the same request.

rh...@gmail.com <rh...@gmail.com> #5Oct 29, 2015 12:35AM

I have starred this as a WANT. There are many services that would be OK with an ephemeral IP address so long as there is a DNS entry and it's OK if it is unreachable for a few minutes when DNS updates are propagating.

er...@ziiware.com <er...@ziiware.com> #6Dec 7, 2015 12:24PM

This would certainl;y make the ephemeral addresses much more useful, especially in Google Container Engine clusters.

aa...@gmail.com <aa...@gmail.com> #7Apr 2, 2016 07:02PM

Hi

Is there any timeline on this?

THis issue was acknowledged in April 2014, but nothing since.

Why?
I use a virtual server with an ephemeral IP address as an occasionally-on dev server.
It needs https.
It would be good if it has a fixed 'internal DNS' name, e.g.

dev-server.my-project.europe-2.google.com
Then I can make a DNS CNAME to it, i.e.

dev-server.my-domain.com => ....
It also makes ssh'ing / scp'ing to it easier if it has a fixed name.

Thanks

Andrew

yv...@gmail.com <yv...@gmail.com> #8May 17, 2016 08:12PM

Totally agree, please implement such a mechanism. Would make life in the cloud much easier.

pa...@google.com <pa...@google.com> #10Feb 20, 2017 08:03PM

This feature is available in alpha, to be considered for early testing please sign up here:

https://goo.gl/efG1sK

yv...@gmail.com <yv...@gmail.com> #11Feb 21, 2017 07:26AM

Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 9:04 PM <google-compute-engine@googlecode.com>
wrote:

ma...@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com> #12Aug 23, 2017 12:32AM

Has there been any update for this?

pa...@google.com <pa...@google.com> #13Nov 15, 2017 05:56AM

Please stay tuned, we're still working on developing the relevant DNS subsystems for production-level reliability so we can move to Beta testing and then GA.

is...@google.com <is...@google.com> May 11, 2018 07:18PM

Status: New

md...@gmail.com <md...@gmail.com> #14Jan 28, 2019 11:25PM

Any notices?
I'm new on GCP and need it!

er...@ziiware.com <er...@ziiware.com> #15Jan 30, 2019 02:44PM

You can use gcloud commands in a script to do this. The console page where you do it manually has a link at the bottom that shows you the gcloud command line. That is what we did, with ansible.

ma...@maxweisel.com <ma...@maxweisel.com> #16Apr 17, 2021 07:25PM

Any word on this one?

ph...@battelleecology.org <ph...@battelleecology.org> #17Nov 10, 2021 01:46AM

Any news on this?

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #18Jul 29, 2022 07:25PM

Any updates on this is much appreciated? Are there anyone really looking to this as a feature?

ma...@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com> #19Aug 17, 2022 06:53PM

Really needed feature

di...@siteground.com <di...@siteground.com> #20Aug 24, 2022 03:04PM

This would be very helpful feature.

fi...@embriotech.ch <fi...@embriotech.ch> #21Sep 16, 2022 08:50AM

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me...@gmail.com <me...@gmail.com> #22Jul 5, 2023 08:01PM

Still want this feature. specifically on node startup and shutdown

ke...@umich.edu <ke...@umich.edu> #23Jul 6, 2023 12:56PM

For us, it would be nice if it wasn't just for internal DNS, but even managed DNS (Cloud DNS) that you have permission on

ra...@gmail.com <ra...@gmail.com> #24May 6, 2024 09:01AM

this would be very nice indeed...

al...@google.com <al...@google.com> Jul 5, 2024 09:16AM

Assigned to gc...@google.com.