Designate Command Line Tool (compatible with v1 API only)¶

Credentials¶

As with any OpenStack utility, designate requires certain information to talk to the REST API, username, password, auth url (from where the other required endpoints are retrieved once you are authenticated).

To provide your access credentials (username, password, tenant name or tenant id) you can pass them on the command line with the --os-username, --os-password, --os-tenant-name or --os-tenant-id params, but it’s easier to just set them as environment variables:

export OS_USERNAME=openstack
export OS_PASSWORD=yadayada
export OS_TENANT_NAME=myproject
export OS_TENANT_ID=123456789

You will also need to define the authentication url with --os-auth-url or set is as an environment variable as well:

export OS_AUTH_URL=https://example.com:5000/v2.0/

Since Keystone can return multiple regions in the Service Catalog, you can specify the one you want with --os-region-name (or export OS_REGION_NAME). It defaults to the first in the list returned.

Using the command line tool¶

With enough details now in the environment, you can use the designate client to create a domain and populate it with some records:

$ designate domain-create --name example.com. --email admin@example.com
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| description | None                                 |
| created_at  | 2013-09-19T11:45:25.295355           |
| updated_at  | None                                 |
| email       | admin@example.com                    |
| ttl         | 3600                                 |
| serial      | 1379591125                           |
| id          | eacbe2a5-95f1-4a9f-89f5-b9c58009b163 |
| name        | example.com.                         |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+

Now that the domain has been created, we can start adding records.

You’ll note that the name (www.example.com) has a trailing ., as per the DNS standard, we didn’t set a TTL and we had to specify the parent zone/domain by domain_id eacbe2a5-95f1-4a9f-89f5-b9c58009b163.

$  designate record-create eacbe2a5-95f1-4a9f-89f5-b9c58009b163 --name www.example.com. --type A --data 1.2.3.4
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| name        | www.example.com.                     |
| data        | 1.2.3.4                              |
| created_at  | 2013-09-19T13:44:42.295428           |
| updated_at  | None                                 |
| id          | 147f6082-8466-4951-8d13-37a10e92b11e |
| priority    | None                                 |
| ttl         | None                                 |
| type        | A                                    |
| domain_id   | eacbe2a5-95f1-4a9f-89f5-b9c58009b163 |
| description | None                                 |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+

subcommands¶

We’ve already seen the domain-create and record-create subcommands, here the full list of subcommands:

Builtin designate documentation¶

You’ll find complete documentation on the shell by running designate --help:

usage: designate [–version] [-v] [–log-file LOG_FILE] [-q] [-h] [–debug]

[–os-username OS_USERNAME] [–os-user-id OS_USER_ID] [–os-user-domain-id OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID] [–os-user-domain-name OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME] [–os-password OS_PASSWORD] [–os-tenant-name OS_TENANT_NAME] [–os-tenant-id OS_TENANT_ID] [–os-project-name OS_PROJECT_NAME] [–os-domain-name OS_DOMAIN_NAME] [–os-domain-id OS_DOMAIN_ID] [–os-project-id OS_PROJECT_ID] [–os-project-domain-id OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID] [–os-project-domain-name OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME] [–os-auth-url OS_AUTH_URL] [–os-region-name OS_REGION_NAME] [–os-token OS_TOKEN] [–os-endpoint OS_ENDPOINT] [–os-endpoint-type OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE] [–os-service-type OS_SERVICE_TYPE] [–os-cacert OS_CACERT] [–insecure] [–all-tenants] [–edit-managed]

Designate Client

optional arguments:

--version	show program’s version number and exit
-v, --verbose	Increase verbosity of output. Can be repeated.
--log-file LOG_FILE
	Specify a file to log output. Disabled by default.
-q, --quiet	Suppress output except warnings and errors.
-h, --help	Show this help message and exit.
--debug	Show tracebacks on errors.
--os-username OS_USERNAME
	Name used for authentication with the OpenStack Identity service. Defaults to env[OS_USERNAME].
--os-user-id OS_USER_ID
	User ID used for authentication with the OpenStack Identity service. Defaults to env[OS_USER_ID].
--os-user-domain-id OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID
	Defaults to env[OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID].
--os-user-domain-name OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME
	Defaults to env[OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME].
--os-password OS_PASSWORD
	Password used for authentication with the OpenStack Identity service. Defaults to env[OS_PASSWORD].
--os-tenant-name OS_TENANT_NAME
	Tenant to request authorization on. Defaults to env[OS_TENANT_NAME].
--os-tenant-id OS_TENANT_ID
	Tenant to request authorization on. Defaults to env[OS_TENANT_ID].
--os-project-name OS_PROJECT_NAME
	Project to request authorization on. Defaults to env[OS_PROJECT_NAME].
--os-domain-name OS_DOMAIN_NAME
	Project to request authorization on. Defaults to env[OS_DOMAIN_NAME].
--os-domain-id OS_DOMAIN_ID
	Defaults to env[OS_DOMAIN_ID].
--os-project-id OS_PROJECT_ID
	Project to request authorization on. Defaults to env[OS_PROJECT_ID].
--os-project-domain-id OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID
	Defaults to env[OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID].
--os-project-domain-name OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME
	Defaults to env[OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME].
--os-auth-url OS_AUTH_URL
	Specify the Identity endpoint to use for authentication. Defaults to env[OS_AUTH_URL].
--os-region-name OS_REGION_NAME
	Specify the region to use. Defaults to env[OS_REGION_NAME].
--os-token OS_TOKEN
	Specify an existing token to use instead of retrieving one via authentication (e.g. with username & password). Defaults to env[OS_SERVICE_TOKEN].
--os-endpoint OS_ENDPOINT
	Specify an endpoint to use instead of retrieving one from the service catalog (via authentication). Defaults to env[OS_DNS_ENDPOINT].
--os-endpoint-type OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE
	Defaults to env[OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE].
--os-service-type OS_SERVICE_TYPE
	Defaults to env[OS_DNS_SERVICE_TYPE], or ‘dns’.
--os-cacert OS_CACERT
	CA certificate bundle file. Defaults to env[OS_CACERT].
--insecure	Explicitly allow ‘insecure’ SSL requests.
--all-tenants	Allows to list all domains from all tenants.
--edit-managed	Allows to edit records that are marked as managed.

Commands:

complete print bash completion command diagnostics-ping Ping a service on a given host domain-create Create Domain domain-delete Delete Domain domain-get Get Domain domain-list List Domains domain-servers-list List Domain Servers domain-update Update Domain help print detailed help for another command quota-get Get Quota quota-reset Reset Quota quota-update Update Quota record-create Create Record record-delete Delete Record record-get Get Record record-list List Records record-update Update Record report-count-all Get count totals for all tenants, domains and records report-count-domains Get counts for total domains report-count-records Get counts for total records report-count-tenants Get counts for total tenants report-tenant-domains Get a list of domains for given tenant report-tenants-all Get list of tenants and domain count for each server-create Create Server server-delete Delete Server server-get Get Server server-list List Servers server-update Update Server sync-all Sync Everything sync-domain Sync a single Domain sync-record Sync a single Record touch-domain Touch a single Domain