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Life & fun · November 19, 2025

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OctoDNS, Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers

After the major outages from AWS and Cloudflare, I began wondering how to make my own services more resilient. Using nameservers from different providers is doable but a bit tricky to manage. OctoDNS helps automate keeping the zones synced so AWS, Cloudflare, etc. are all serving the same information. In an age of centralized infrastructure, we can exploit the capabilities from the origins of the decentralized internet.

OctoDNS, Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers launched on November 19, 2025 with 31 votes, #531 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

OctoDNS is a tool that automates DNS zone synchronization across multiple providers like AWS and Cloudflare. It allows users to maintain the same DNS records simultaneously on different nameservers, improving service resilience by reducing dependence on any single provider. The tool addresses the challenge of managing distributed DNS infrastructure by automating what would otherwise be manual, error-prone coordination between providers.

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From the sources

In the vein of infrastructure as code octoDNS provides a set of tools & patterns that make it easy to manage your DNS records across multiple providers. The resulting config can live in a repository and be deployed just like the rest of your code, maintaining a clear history and using your existing review & workflow. The architecture is pluggable and the tooling is flexible to make it applicable to a wide variety of use-cases. Effort has been made to make adding new providers as easy as possible. In the simple case that involves writing of a single class and a couple hundred lines of code, most of which is translating between the provider’s schema and octoDNS’s. The table below lists the…from octodns.readthedocs.io

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