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Component: dns-primary

This component is responsible for provisioning the primary DNS zones into an AWS account. By convention, we typically provision the primary DNS zones in the dns account. The primary account for branded zones (e.g. example.com), however, would be in the prod account, while staging zone (e.g. example.qa) might be in the staging account.

The zones from the primary DNS zone are then expected to be delegated to other accounts via the dns-delegated component. Additionally, external records can be created on the primary DNS zones via the record_config variable.

Usage

Stack Level: Global

Here's an example snippet for how to use this component. This component should only be applied once as the DNS zones it creates are global. This is typically done via the DNS stack (e.g. gbl-dns.yaml).

components:
terraform:
dns-primary:
vars:
domain_names:
- example.net
record_config:
- root_zone: example.net
name: ""
type: A
ttl: 60
records:
- 53.229.170.215
- root_zone: example.net
name: www
type: CNAME
ttl: 60
records:
- example.net

Requirements

NameVersion
terraform>= 1.0.0
aws>= 4.9.0

Providers

NameVersion
aws>= 4.9.0

Modules

NameSourceVersion
acmcloudposse/acm-request-certificate/aws0.16.2
iam_roles../account-map/modules/iam-rolesn/a
thiscloudposse/label/null0.25.0

Resources

NameType
aws_route53_record.aliasrecresource
aws_route53_record.dnsrecresource
aws_route53_record.soaresource
aws_route53_zone.rootresource

Inputs

NameDescriptionTypeDefaultRequired
additional_tag_mapAdditional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.
map(string){}no
alias_record_configDNS Alias Record config
list(object({
root_zone = string
name = string
type = string
zone_id = string
record = string
evaluate_target_health = bool
}))
[]no
attributesID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.
list(string)[]no
contextSingle object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.
any
{
"additional_tag_map": {},
"attributes": [],
"delimiter": null,
"descriptor_formats": {},
"enabled": true,
"environment": null,
"id_length_limit": null,
"label_key_case": null,
"label_order": [],
"label_value_case": null,
"labels_as_tags": [
"unset"
],
"name": null,
"namespace": null,
"regex_replace_chars": null,
"stage": null,
"tags": {},
"tenant": null
}
no
delimiterDelimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.
stringnullno
descriptor_formatsDescribe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).
any{}no
dns_soa_configRoot domain name DNS SOA record:
- awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. ; AWS default value for administrator email address
- 1 ; serial number, not used by AWS
- 7200 ; refresh time in seconds for secondary DNS servers to refreh SOA record
- 900 ; retry time in seconds for secondary DNS servers to retry failed SOA record update
- 1209600 ; expire time in seconds (1209600 is 2 weeks) for secondary DNS servers to remove SOA record if they cannot refresh it
- 60 ; nxdomain TTL, or time in seconds for secondary DNS servers to cache negative responses
See SOA Record Documentation for more information.
string"awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 60"no
domain_namesRoot domain name list, e.g. ["example.net"]list(string)nullno
enabledSet to false to prevent the module from creating any resourcesboolnullno
environmentID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'stringnullno
id_length_limitLimit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.
numbernullno
import_profile_nameAWS Profile name to use when importing a resourcestringnullno
import_role_arnIAM Role ARN to use when importing a resourcestringnullno
label_key_caseControls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.
stringnullno
label_orderThe order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.
list(string)nullno
label_value_caseControls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.
stringnullno
labels_as_tagsSet of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.
set(string)
[
"default"
]
no
nameID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.
stringnullno
namespaceID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally uniquestringnullno
record_configDNS Record config
list(object({
root_zone = string
name = string
type = string
ttl = string
records = list(string)
}))
[]no
regex_replace_charsTerraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.
stringnullno
regionAWS Regionstringn/ayes
request_acm_certificateWhether or not to request an ACM certificate for each domainboolfalseno
stageID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'stringnullno
tagsAdditional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.
map(string){}no
tenantID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is forstringnullno

Outputs

NameDescription
acmsACM certificates for domains
zonesDNS zones

References