Managing DNS Zones as Code

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you run more than a handful of domains, you know the drill: log into a web console, find the right zone, add a record, hope you didn’t typo a hostname. There’s no history of who changed what, no review before it goes live, and no undo if it breaks production.

That’s exactly the gap dnscontrol and git close.

dnscontrol solves this by treating DNS zones as code: you describe your records declaratively in JavaScript configuration files, commit them to git, and let a tool compute and apply the diff against your actual DNS provider(s). It’s the same idea as infrastructure-as-code applied to DNS specifically.

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Managing DNS Zones as Code