tcely/powerdns repository overview

⁠PowerDNS Docker Container

• Small Alpine based Image
• MySQL (default), Postgres, SQLight and Bind backend included
• Automatic MySQL database initialization
• Latest PowerDNS version (if not pls file an issue)
• Guardian process enabled
• Graceful shutdown using pdns_control

⁠Supported tags

• Exact: i.e. 4.0.2-r3: PowerDNS Version 4.0.2, image build 3
• 4.0: PowerDNS Version 4.0.x, latest image build
• 4: PowerDNS Version 4.x.x, latest image build

⁠Usage

# Start a MySQL Container
$ docker run -d \
  --name pdns-mysql \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret \
  -v $PWD/mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql \
  mariadb:10.1

$ docker run --name pdns \
  --link pdns-mysql:mysql \
  -p 53:53 \
  -p 53:53/udp \
  -e MYSQL_USER=root \
  -e MYSQL_PASS=supersecret \
  psitrax/powerdns \
    --cache-ttl=120 \
    --allow-axfr-ips=127.0.0.1 123.1.2.3

⁠Configuration

Environment Configuration:

• MySQL connection settings
  • MYSQL_HOST=mysql
  • MYSQL_USER=root
  • MYSQL_PASS=root
  • MYSQL_DB=pdns
• Want to disable mysql initialization? Use MYSQL_AUTOCONF=false
• Want to use own config files? Mount a Volume to /etc/pdns/conf.d or simply overwrite /etc/pdns/pdns.conf

PowerDNS Configuration:

Append the PowerDNS setting to the command as shown in the example above.
See docker run --rm psitrax/powerdns --help

⁠License

GNU General Public License v2.0⁠ applyies to PowerDNS and all files in this repository.

⁠Maintainer

• Christoph Wiechert [email protected]⁠

⁠Credits

• Mathias Kaufmann [email protected]⁠: Reduced image size