CoreDNS – Support for AVC Resource Record

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I am more then happy to announce that Miek Gieben took a stab to implement AVC Resource Record support for CoreDNS with pull request #480. CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains middleware. Each middleware implements some DNS feature, like service discovery.

Currently CoreDNS supports (among others) the following middlewares:

  • chaos: respond to CH class queries
  • dnssec: on-the-fly DNSSEC signing of records
  • etcd: SkyDNS replacement
  • file: serve DNS from a set of files
  • health: simple health check
  • kubernetes: use CoreDNS as a KubeDNS replacement
  • loadbalance: shuffle A and AAAA records
  • metrics: Prometheus metrics
  • pprof: Go profiling
  • proxy: forward queries to an upstream (recursive) server
  • rewrite: rewrite incoming queries
  • secondary: be a secondary nameserver and retrieve zones from a primary

This is the next step forward in our journey to use DNS and the DNS-AS idea as a method for central policy control for application intent, no matter if it’s for network devices, operating systems or containerized environments.

Miek, many thanks for your support!