Simplifying Multi-Cloud DNS Management

Every enterprise desiring Internet reachability requires a web presence, and every web presence requires accurate and reliable reachability information published within the domain name system (DNS). For every web address you type or click, DNS is used to translate the text-based uniform resource locator (URL) into an IP address so your device can connect to it . As a given web page loads, numerous additional DNS queries are needed to locate and load images, styling, videos, java script, and related content to render the desired page. If DNS is unavailable, the site will not be reached, and the page won’t load. Beyond web access, DNS is crucial for any Internet application, from email, to messaging to voice communications, and pretty much any on-line activity.

Management of a diverse and potentially mixed vendor, multi-platform DNS deployment may require training on and operation of multiple user interfaces to perform zone record updates. For example, one may use a DDI system or text editor to configure internal DNS servers while using a cloud DNS console or API to configure external DNS. You can consolidate this user interface however using a disciplined DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI) system like Cygna DDI products, which provide centralized administration of your internal private and external public IP address and DNS namespaces.

Cygna DDI products facilitate visibility and management of internal and external DNS namespaces with deployment for DNS hardware and virtual appliances, public cloud-instantiated DNS appliances, stock DNS software from Microsoft and ISC BIND, and public DNS cloud services, including Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS and Google DNS. Cygna DDI appliances are available as hardware in a variety of platforms of varying power, memory and disk, or as virtual appliances. Virtual platform support includes VMware, KVM, and Hyper-V, as well as AWS and Azure. This enables you to deploy a virtual DNS appliance on any of these platforms, then deploy zones and resource records from the centralized Cygna DDI user interface.

Support of cloud DNS services includes managing provisioned zones and resource records from the cloud DNS service via an API. Cygna DDI enables the adding, modifying, and deleting of your zones and resource records in cloud DNS services. The integration of this diverse set of DNS service types from multiple vendors enables administrators to streamline DNS management and to eliminate the swivel chair provisioning of external DNS information to cloud DNS services as easily as they provision internal DNS information to in-house DNS servers through a single pane of glass.