octoDNS vs Designate

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octoDNS		Designate
	Project
13	Mentions	-
2,972	Stars	71
1.7%	Growth	-
9.3	Activity	8.5
9 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

octoDNS

Posts with mentions or reviews of octoDNS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-05.

Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
OctoDNS: Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023
What is the best way to integrate the bind9 service on ci/cd?
2 projects | /r/devops | 24 Nov 2022

Change to a supported provider for octoDNS. I've done some automating of bind files using Jinja2/Ansible, but I had to roll my own.
Converting BIND DNS zones to HCL
2 projects | /r/Terraform | 30 Aug 2022

I'd use OctoDNS with the ZoneFileSource to parse the zone files into the YAML files so I have structured data to work with, then I'd write a script to loop through each one and generate the above var.records data structure for each
The Dhall Configuration Language
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2022

We use https://github.com/octodns/octodns for some of our DNS records. It's flexible, much faster than Terraform for thousands of records, and the maintainer Ross has been responsive on issues and pull requests. Also see Cloudflare's blog for how they use it
Some of the popular DNS management services as a self hosted service
3 projects | /r/dns | 2 May 2022

OctoDNS https://github.com/octodns/octodns
DNSControl - the most underrated DNS tool
4 projects | /r/devops | 25 Apr 2022
AWS is down! Half of the internet is down!
5 projects | /r/programming | 15 Dec 2021
Akamai Edge DNS Down
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2021

Have them all hot and live rather than any sort of failover system. Keep everything in sync with OctoDNS or similar
https://github.com/octodns/octodns
Sync Azure DNS zones with onpremise Windows DNS Server
1 project | /r/AZURE | 17 Mar 2021

Finally, you could explore the use of third-party sync tools - https://github.com/octodns/octodns might be a good choice.

Designate

Posts with mentions or reviews of Designate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Designate yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing octoDNS and Designate you can also consider the following projects:

DnsControl - Infrastructure as code for DNS!

PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

DomainMOD - DomainMOD is an open source application written in PHP & MySQL used to manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location. DomainMOD also includes a Data Warehouse framework that allows you to import your web server data so that you can view, export, and report on your live data.

Knot DNS - A mirrored repository

lexicon - Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.

Bind - Mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab. Any issues and PRs opened here will be closed without a comment.

dnstwist - Domain name permutation engine for detecting homograph phishing attacks, typo squatting, and brand impersonation

desec-stack - Backbone of the deSEC.io Free Secure DNS Hosting Service

Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

ens - Implementations for ENS core functionality: The registry, registrars, and public resolvers.

dnsmasq - mirror of dnsmasq (git://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq.git ). This account is NOT maintained by dnsmasq developers. I am happy to give account to them. Please feel free to contact me. 1584171677[at]qq[dot]com