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Managing Amazon Route 53 DNS Resources from the Command Line (LKCLI)

Amazon Route 53 DNS resources provide failover protection by updating an Amazon Route 53 DNS record to point to the new active node’s network interface when a failover occurs.

Resource Type: comm/route53
Aliases: route53

Subcommands

Amazon Route 53 DNS resources are managed by commands of the form:

lkcli resource comm/route53 <subcommand> [flags]

Subcommand Description Required Role
create Create a new Route 53 DNS resource admin
extend Extend to a standby server admin
get-property Read a resource property guest
set-property Update an editable resource property admin

create

lkcli resource comm/route53 create \
  --domain-name=<string> --host-name=<string> --network-interface=<string> [flags]

Flag Short Type Required Default Constraints Description
--domain-name — string Yes — — Domain name of the Route53 hosted zone to protect. You can also specify the hosted zone ID instead of the domain name.
If multiple hosted zones exist for the same domain name, specifying the domain name will result in an error. In this case, please specify the hosted zone ID.
--host-name — string Yes — — Hostname portion of the DNS record name
--network-interface — string Yes — — Network interface ID to associate with the DNS A record
--verify-iam-role — bool No true — Verify IAM role permissions during creation
--tag — string No Auto-generated — Resource tag name
--switchback — enum No INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT, AUTOMATIC Switchback type

extend

lkcli resource comm/route53 extend \
  --network-interface=<string> --primary-sys=<string> --primary-tag=<string> [flags]

Flag Short Type Required Default Constraints Description
--network-interface — string Yes — — Network interface ID on the standby server
--primary-sys — string Yes — — Hostname of the server the existing resource is extended from
--primary-tag — string Yes — — Tag of the existing resource to extend
--standby-sys — string No Value of --host (defaults to localhost) — Hostname of the standby server
--switchback — enum No INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT, AUTOMATIC Switchback type
--primary-priority — int No Defaults to the current priority of the --primary-sys server, or 1 if the resource has not yet been extended min: 1, max: 999 Failover priority for the primary server
--standby-priority — int No Defaults to an unused value which is computed dynamically based on the priority values currently in-use min: 1, max: 999 Failover priority for the standby server

get-property / set-property

lkcli resource comm/route53 get-property --tag=<string> --property=<string>
lkcli resource comm/route53 set-property --tag=<string> --property=<string> --value=<string>

Flag Short Type Required Description
--tag -t string Yes Resource tag name
--property -p string Yes Property name (see Properties table below)
--value -v string Yes (set-property only) New property value

Properties

Property Type Constraints Editable Description
fqdn string — No Fully qualified domain name managed by this resource
hosted-zone-id string — No AWS Route 53 hosted zone ID
network-interface string — No Network interface ID associated with the Route 53 resource
network-interface-guid string — No Network interface GUID associated with the Route 53 resource
kit-name string — No Recovery kit name
quickcheck-interval int min: 0, max: 604800 Yes Quickcheck interval in seconds (default: 180)
local-recovery enum enabled, disabled Yes Enable local recovery
switchback enum INTELLIGENT, AUTOMATIC Yes Switchback type

Example Usage

# Create a Route 53 DNS resource
lkcli resource comm/route53 create \
  --host=server1 \
  --domain-name=example.com \
  --host-name=mycluster \
  --network-interface="Ethernet 2" \
  --tag=route53-mycluster

# Extend to server2
lkcli resource comm/route53 extend \
  --primary-sys=server1 \
  --primary-tag=route53-mycluster \
  --standby-sys=server2 \
  --network-interface="Ethernet 2"

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