Question

digitalocean_app dns record with terraform

I’m building my infrastructure with Terraform.

I declared a digitalocean_domain:

resource "digitalocean_domain" "royllo_domain" {
  name = "royllo.org"
}

and then, I have my digitalocean_app: resource “digitalocean_app” “royllo_explorer_api_server” {

resource "digitalocean_app" "royllo_explorer_api_server" {
  spec {
  ...
    domain {
      name = "api.explorer.royllo.org"
    }
  ...
  }
}

The app is deployed correcty and I can access it with its ingress address.

The live URL in digital ocean panel is correct: api.explorer.royllo.org But when I try to access api.explorer.royllo.org, it doesn’t work and when doing dig royllo.org any there is not DNS record for my App…

What am I missing ? I thought setting domain {} would be enough. I also tried to create a digitalocean_record but i don’t know what to set in the value parameter as app doesn’t seem to return an IP


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Bobby Iliev
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April 13, 2023
Accepted Answer

Hi there,

I believe that for this you would need to use the zone argument reference as described here in the docs:

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/digitalocean/digitalocean/latest/docs/resources/app#zone

zone - If the domain uses DigitalOcean DNS and you would like App Platform to automatically manage it for you, set this to the name of the domain on your account.

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby

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