is there a way to update the DNS records on a zone hosted at Digitalocean with IP’s from automatically deployed Droplets ?
i use API to auto-deploy from a snapshoot, but the API response does not include the IP the droplet will get, so i was thinking using somethings on the droplet itself … to update the DNS records on startup… not so sure this is the best way of going about it …
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Yes, that’s a common approach — have the droplet call the DigitalOcean API on startup to update its DNS record once it knows its public IP. You can use a simple bash script with curl and your API token to update the record automatically.
Heya, @nullx8
You can poll the API until the droplet becomes active, then fetch its assigned public IP. Once you have it, use the same API (or doctl) to update or create a DNS record in your domain.
Regards
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