Description

• Install the rsdns Rackspace Cloud DNS management scripts from github https://github.com/linickx/rsdns

• Puts the scripts into /opt/rsdns, a symlink to the main rsdns script into /usr/local/bin so it's in the PATH, and creates a .rsdns_config file in /root with the username and api key to use

Requirements

• A Rackspace cloud server username and api key to use the rsdns scripts

• If you want automatic credentials added to the rsdns commands for the root user, an encrypted data_bag named rackspace must be created with an item called cloud.

  • If you do not want to use the /root/.rsdns_config file to manage the credentials for root, skip the following section

Setting up the .raxrc file for automatic cloud login credentials for root

If you already have an encrypted_data_bag_secret file created and pushed out to your chef nodes

• Create the new encrypted data_bag
  knife data bag create --secret-file <LOCATION/NAME OF SECRET FILE> rackspace cloud

• Make the json file opened look like the following, then save and exit your editor:
  {
  "id": "cloud",
  "raxusername": "<YOUR CLOUD SERVER USERNAME",
  "raxapikey": "<YOUR CLOUD SERVER API KEY"
  }

If you are not currently using an encrypted_data_bag_secret file

• Create a new secret file
  openssl rand -base64 512 | tr -d '\r\n' > /tmp/my_data_bag_key

• The /tmp/my_data_bag_key (or whatever you called it in the above step) needs to be pushed out to your chef nodes to /etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret

• Create the new encrypted data_bag
  knife data bag create --secret-file /tmp/my_data_bag_key rackspace cloud

• Make the json file opened look like the following, then save and exit your editor:
  {
  "id": "cloud",
  "raxusername": "<YOUR CLOUD SERVER USERNAME",
  "raxapikey": "<YOUR CLOUD SERVER API KEY"
  }

Attributes

From encrypted data bag rackspace with item cloud:
* ['raxusername']
* ['raxapikey']

Usage

Using the .rsdns_config file

*Follow the steps under the Requirements section above to create the encrypted data bag for the .rsdns_config file
* As root user you can manage your Rackspace Cloud DNS settings via the rsdns tools, see the description above for links to the documentation
* If you do not set the .rsdns_config credentials, or you want to use rsdns from a non-root user, you can still access the Rackspace Cloud DNS API by -u and -a options on your rsdns commands

Not using the .rsdns_config file

• Do not create the rackspace cloud encrypted databag item
• Access the Rackspace Cloud DNS API by using the -u and -a options on your rsdns commands
• Export the path to rsdns with "export RSPATH=/opt/rsdns", or add the export command to your .bash_profile