Rancher External DNS service powered by DNSimple DNS

• Reduces the overall rate of API requests to the DNS provider
• Adds support for custom DNS naming convention
• Stack, service and environment names used in service DNS names are now sanitized to conform with RFC 1123. Characters other than a-z, A-Z, 0-9 or dash are replaced by dashes.
• For internal use the service creates TXT records to track the FQDNs it manages. These TXT records are named external-dns-<environemntUUID>.<domain> and should not be deleted.

While upgrading from a version lower than v0.6.0 the TTL configuration value should not be changed. You may change it once the upgrade has been completed.

When running multiple instances of the External DNS service configured to use the same domain name, then only one of them can run in the "Default" environment of a Rancher server instance.

By default DNS entries are named <service>.<stack>.<environment>.<domain>.
You can specify a custom name template used to construct the subdomain part (left of the domain/zone name) of the DNS records. The following placeholders are supported:

• %{{service_name}}
• %{{stack_name}}
• %{{environment_name}}

Example:

%{{stack_name}}-%{{service_name}}.statictext

Make sure to only use characters in static text and separators that your provider allows in DNS names.