octoDNS VS ytt

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.

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

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

OctoDNS https://github.com/octodns/octodns

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

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

YTT - YTT is a templating tool that understands YAML structure. It helps you easily configure complex software via reusable templates and user provided values using the Starlark language.

Adding https://carvel.dev/ytt/ to the list. I was happy using this tool as IMO it mixes good things from Helm and Kustomize, however the syntax is ugly and repelling my colleagues to have a closer look.

> Templating yaml is a terrible, terrible idea

I've had a good time using ytt: https://carvel.dev/ytt/. It implements language-aware templating, which is IMO the only reasonable way to do it.

`ytt` is part of the Carvel toolchain. https://carvel.dev/ytt/

I agree with you on `you will want to see just plain texts instead of a bunch of templating token with hidden logic.` Which is why I think https://carvel.dev/ytt/ would be great. We could generate these templates in pipelines, or we could just make it easier to maintain what we have.

For more advanced configuration management you might be interested in ytt ( https://carvel.dev/ytt/ ) which is a "yaml-aware" templating tool. it lets you do "patches" via an overlay mechanism to add or remove specific yaml blocks, and it also lets you use a simplified python dialect for more complicated logic. With ytt you would put your DNS IP into a "data values" file and then run ytt to render it into the configs before handing them off to the deployment tool. e.g. `ytt -f | kubectl apply`

I said this above as well: ytt (https://carvel.dev/ytt/) lets you embed starlark into valid yaml, among other cute tricks for managing biz-logic in configs.

Manifests are generated with ytt (https://carvel.dev/ytt/).

This is why you should consider https://carvel.dev/ytt/