DNS Management | Apiculus Technical Documentation

DNS Management

In virtual networking, where many resources like virtual machines, containers, and applications are constantly created, moved, or scaled, DNS management helps in keeping everything connected. It ensures that domain names point to the correct virtual resources, even as they change or move within the cloud.The DNS Management Module allows users to easily manage domain name settings within the cloud environment. It includes features to create and edit DNS records. The module also supports switching to a different DNS provider.

📄️ About DNS Management

Apiculus servers can be used as authoritative name server(s) for managing DNS records. If the Service is enabled, Cloud Console users can bring their own domains (BYOD) to use with the workloads created using Apiculus-powered clouds.

📄️ Linking Domains to Apiculus Cloud Console

The Apiculus-powered cloud has nameservers if the service provider has enabled this service. These name servers are simply fully-qualified domain names (FQDN) for the servers that store all the domain/zone information. Typically, these name servers will be in the following format:

📄️ Managing DNS Records

DNS records and subdomains can be managed on Apiculus Cloud Console to be used with Instances, IPv4 Addresses and other workloads created on Apiculus-powered clouds. This only requires a domain to be linked with the Apiculus nameservers.

📄️ Switching to Another DNS Provider

In case you don't want to use the DNS Management Service on your Apiculus-powered cloud, you can always switch back to another provider of choice. To do so, head to your domain name provider's control panel and update the nameserver details to those of the DNS provider you wish to use.