vinyldns-cli

A Golang-based CLI for the vinyldns DNS as a service API.

Installation

Download the latest pre-compiled executable release version for your operating system.

For example, to install version 0.10.0 on Linux

Download:

wget https://github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-cli/releases/download/v0.10.0/vinyldns_0.10.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

Extract the executable:

tar zxf vinyldns_0.10.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

This will extract a file named vinyldns. To get started:

./vinyldns --help

And, of course, you can also move it to your path. For example...

Move it somewhere in your $PATH:

sudo mv vinyldns /usr/local/bin

Use the vinyldns command:

vinyldns --help

Compiling from Golang source

Alternatively, if you choose to compile from Golang source code:

• install Golang
• set up your $GOPATH
• go get github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-cli
• cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-cli && make

Usage

vinyldns --help

Supported commands:

COMMANDS:
   groups               groups
   group                group --group-id <groupID>
   group-create         group-create --json <groupJSON>
   group-update         group-update --json <groupJSON>
   group-delete         group-delete --group-id <groupID>
   group-admins         group-admins --group-id <groupID>
   group-members        group-members --group-id <groupID>
   group-activity       group-activity --group-id <groupID>
   zones                zones
   zone                 zone --zone-id <zoneID>
   zone-create          zone-create --name <name> --email <email> --admin-group-id <adminGroupID> --transfer-connection-name <transferConnectionName> --transfer-connection-key <transferConnectionKey> --transfer-connection-key-name <transferConnectionKeyName> --transfer-connection-primary-server <transferConnectionPrimaryServer> --zone-connection-name <zoneConnectionName> --zone-connection-key <zoneConnectionKey> --zone-connection-key-name <zoneConnectionKeyName> --zone-connection-primary-server <zoneConnectionPrimaryServer>
   zone-update          zone-update --json <zoneJSON>
   zone-delete          zone-delete --zone-id <zoneID>
   zone-connection      zone-connection --zone-id <zoneID>
   zone-changes         zone-changes --zone-changes <zoneID>
   zone-sync            zone-sync --zone-sync <zoneID>
   record-set-changes   record-set-changes --zone-id <zoneID>
   record-set           record-set --zone-id <zoneID> --record-set-id <recordSetID>
   record-set-change    record-set-change --zone-id <zoneID> --record-set-id <recordSetID> --change-id <changeID>
   record-set-create    record-set-create --zone-id <zoneID> --record-set-name <recordSetName> --record-set-type <type> --record-set-ttl <TTL> --record-set-data <rdata>
   record-set-delete    record-set-delete --zone-id <zoneID> --record-set-id <recordSetID>
   record-sets          record-sets --zone-id <zoneID>
   search-record-sets   search-record-sets
   batch-changes        batch-changes
   batch-change         batch-change --batch-change-id <batchChangeID>
   batch-change-create  batch-change-create --json <batchChangeJSON>
   help, h              Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --host value                    vinyldns API Hostname [$VINYLDNS_HOST]
   --access-key value, --ak value  vinyldns access key [$VINYLDNS_ACCESS_KEY]
   --secret-key value, --sk value  vinyldns secret key [$VINYLDNS_SECRET_KEY]
   --output value, --op value      vinyldns output format ('table' (default), 'json') [$VINYLDNS_FORMAT]
   --help, -h                      show help
   --version, -v                   print the version

Example usage:

vinyldns \
  --host https://my-vinyldns.com \
  --access-key 123 \
  --secret-key 456 \
  zones

+--------------------+--------------------------------------+
|        NAME        |                  ID                  |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+
| foo.bar.net.       | 1fe5c74b-e478-43a7-9ee6-5413ae080086 |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+
| foo.sys.bar.net.   | 19e21b0a-682c-425c-a016-9cb1c5bbee32 |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+

Alternatively, in place of the --host, --access-key, and --secret-key options, vinyldns will use the following environment variables:

VINYLDNS_HOST=
VINYLDNS_ACCESS_KEY=
VINYLDNS_SECRET_KEY=

Docker

There is also a vinyldns-cli Docker image.

Usage...

docker pull vinyldns/vinyldns-cli

docker run vinyldns/vinyldns-cli:latest --help
NAME:
   vinyldns - A CLI to the vinyldns DNS-as-a-service API

USAGE:
   vinyldns [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

...

License

Source code for vinyldns-cli is licensed under Apache-2.0; view license information for the vinyldns-cli software contained in the vinyldns/vinyldns-cli Docker image.

Its docker build makes use of a "builder" stage based on golang:alpine and builds a final, lightweight vinyldns/vinyldns-cli image based in scratch.

Development

To compile, lint, run acceptance tests, etc.:

make

Testing

The tests directory contains a suite of bats acceptance tests verifying vinyldns commands. Tests should accompany new features.