mydnshost-maintenance

Maintenance Container

This container runs various scripts under cron to perform maintenance tasks:

- Every 6 Hours:
	- Database Backups
	- Bind Zone Backups
- Every Hour
	- Update StatusCake checks
- Every Minute
	- Gather Statistics from bind servers

The following mounts are required:

- /output
	- The directory to store output from scripts should be mounted in to this directory
- /var/run/docker.sock
	- The docker socket should be mounted into the container
- /bind
	- The bind zone files should be mounted to /bind

Backup DB

This will look for any container with a label of uk.co.mydnshost.maintenance.db.backup set to "true" and then will attempt to backup named databases from it.

Credentials for mysqldump can be passed with labels uk.co.mydnshost.maintenance.db.user and uk.co.mydnshost.maintenance.db.pass and the list of databases to dump can be passed as a comma separated string uk.co.mydnshost.maintenance.db.dbs

Backups are stored in /output/mysqlbackup/<containername>/<date>/<database>/backup-<time>.sql

The last 30 days of backups are kept.

Backup Zone Files

This will create a backup of all files under /bind/ into /output/bindbackup/<date>/backup-<time>.tgz

The last 30 days of backups are kept.

Update StatusCake

This will make changes to a test domain and update StatusCake tests to look for the updated data.

Example ENV VARS Required:

• API_URL=https://api.mydnshost.co.uk/
  • The API Endpoint to use to make changes
• API_DOMAIN=test.example.org
  • The domain we are using for putting tests under
• API_RRNAMES=foobar,bazqux
  • List of RRNAMES to update. These will be updated in turn and cycled though to reduce the change of a test firing and failing between us updating the record and then updating the check.
  • A Records are created for each <RRNAME>.<API_DOMAIN> with an IP Address related to the date/time the change was made, statuscake will then be updated to point at the new RRNAME and the expected value.
  • A TXT record named active will also be created to remember between runs which RRNAME was last named.
• API_DOMAINKEY=SomeKey
  • DomainKey to access the domain via the API.
• STATUSCAKE_USER=SomeUser
  • StatusCake Username (If blank, this cron script will not run)
• STATUSCAKE_APIKEY=SomeKey
  • StatusCake API
• STATUSCAKE_TESTIDS=12345,67890
  • The TestIDs for status cake to update. There should be 1 test for each nameserver we monitor.

Gather Statistics

This will gather statistics from bind servers and put them into influx.

Example ENV VARS Required:

• INFLUX_HOST=influxdb
  • Server that hosts influx
• INFLUX_PORT=8086
  • Influx Port
• INFLUX_USER=
  • Influx Username
• INFLUX_PASS=
  • Influx Password
• INFLUX_DB=MyDNSHost
  • Influx Database
• INFLUX_BIND_SLAVES=ns1=1.1.1.1, ns2=2.2.2.2, ns3=3.3.3.3
  • List of bind servers to get statistics from. This should be a comma-separated list of <name>=<ip> to reach the server.
  • We need the XML statistics API enabled on the server, and this container host needs to be allowed access it.
  • If this is empty, this cron script will not run.