Craig Peterson and Tom Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Introducing dnscontrol: the DNS DSL and compiler that lets StackOverflow.com treat DNS as code, with all the DevOps-y benefits of CI/CD, unit testing, and more. StackOverflow.com has a large and complex DNS configuration including many domains, complex CDN interactions, unavoidably repeated data, and more. The dnscontrol language permits us to specify our domains at a high level and leave the actual manipulations and updates to our automation. Massive changes, such as failovers between datacenters, are now a matter of changing a variable and recompiling. We've been able to address new problems with smart macros rather than manual updates. Dnscontrol is extendable and has plug-ins for BIND, CloudFlare, Route53/AWS, Azure, Google Cloud DNS, Name.Com, and more.
Tom Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Tom is an SRE Manager at StackOverflow.com and is a co-author of The Practice of System and Network Administration (http://the-sysadmin-book.com). He is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and DevOps advocate. He's also known for other books such as The Practice of Cloud System Administration (http://the-cloud-book.com) and Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly). Previously he's worked at small and large companies including Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T. His blog is http://EverythingSysadmin.com and he tweets @YesThatTom.
Craig Peterson, Stack Overflow
Craig is a developer on the SRE team at Stack Overflow. He is a lead developer their open source monitoring system, bosun, and for DNSControl. He has a passion for scale and performance and for improving sre and developer workflows in any way possible.
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author = {Tom Limoncelli and Craig Peterson},
title = {{DNSControl}: A {DSL} for {DNS} as Code from {StackOverflow.com}},
year = {2017},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}