Manage DNS config programatically

[GeorgianaElena]

Context

We are currently managing our DNS setup, manually, through Namecheap. While this has been generally fine, because we only had to perform small, per-hub updates, during hub creation/decomissionings, things changed when bulk changes were needed.

Missing a hub DNS change during a bulk upgrade, has caused an outage #7906.

What we need to do

We should move from this manual setup to use infrastructure as code that would allow us to manage our DNS entries programmatically.

There are two main options that I see atm:

1. Try to enable Namecheap's API access

Namecheap only allows API access if an org own at least 50 domains. We only have 2. However, in their docs, they state that we could reach out to their support team to get an exception.

2. Use Cloudflare

We could setup a Cloudflare account to setup the DNS records and hook that with Namecheap

This needs investigation to validate it won't trigger any downtime.

3. Something else?

Definition of Done

• DNS records are managed programatically

[agoose77]

Yes! I love this incident action item @GeorgianaElena. I thought about creating a similar item, but I discounted the idea of moving to a different DNS provider. However, that was premature now that I think about it!

[GeorgianaElena]

Thank you @agoose77, but Yuvi has all the credit for sparking it #7666 (comment)