Hello! I am trying to create a CAA record in DNS using digitalocean_record, digitalocean provider in Terraform. I am confused on what fields it wants.
I created a record manually and pulled it with API
{
"id": 159194908,
"type": "CAA",
"name": "@",
"data": "letsencrypt.org",
"priority": null,
"port": null,
"ttl": 3600,
"weight": null,
"flags": 0,
"tag": "issue"
}
When I create a block in Terraform with the same information I get an error.
resource "digitalocean_record" "web-caa-dns" {
value = "letsencrypt.org"
domain = "letsencrypt.org"
type = "CAA"
name = "@"
ttl = 3600
flags = 0
tag = "issue"
}
Error Message:
Error: Failed to create record: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/letsencrypt.org/records: 422 (request "522...") Data needs to be a FQDN with issue or issuewild
with digitalocean_record.web-caa-dns
on dnsrecords.tf line 153, in resource "digitalocean_record" "web-caa-dns":
resource "digitalocean_record" "web-caa-dns" {
It says data needs to be fqdn but if I add
data = "domainname.com"
to Terraform it tells me that field isn’t expected.
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Hi there,
I think that the domain part needs to be the domain that you are trying to add the DNS record to.
As from the error that you’ve shared, Terraform is trying to add this DNS record under the letsencrypt.org domain, which mostlikely does not exist under your account.
Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby
Hi,
I had sort of the same issue and I fixed it, but Bobby Iliev is also right. Your terraform should be:
resource "digitalocean_record" "web-caa-dns" {
value = "letsencrypt.org." # Notice the 'dot' after the domain to make it a DigitalOcean FQDN
domain = [YOUR DOMAIN]
type = "CAA"
name = "@"
ttl = 3600
flags = 0
tag = "issue"
}
Bit of a late answer, but I hope it helps someone.
Kind regards, Vic
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