DNS management with a safety net in front of every change
Zones and records from every provider in one place, changes validated and previewed before they apply, and dangling records found before someone else claims them.
What is DNS Management?
DevOpsArk DNS management is the module that centralises DNS zones and records across providers, validates and previews changes before they apply, and continuously detects dangling records and misconfiguration.
What DNS Management is for
The conditions this module removes. If none of these are familiar, you probably do not need it yet.
- Zones are split across three providers because of acquisitions and nobody has consolidated them.
- A one-character typo in a production record causes an outage that takes an hour to find.
- Records point at decommissioned cloud resources, leaving subdomains available for takeover.
- DNS changes are made in a provider console with no review and no record of who made them.
- TTLs are wrong in exactly the way that makes a planned migration painful.
DNS management reads zones and records from every connected provider into one view, so the estate is visible regardless of where each zone happens to live. Changes are proposed rather than applied directly: the platform shows the diff, validates syntax and record semantics, warns about the change effect given the current TTL, and checks whether the target actually resolves. Applied changes are recorded with their author. Continuously, records are checked against the live infrastructure inventory. A CNAME pointing at a cloud resource that no longer exists is exactly the condition that enables subdomain takeover, and it is reported as a finding rather than left to be discovered by an attacker. The same checks cover missing or malformed SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, and CAA records that conflict with the certificate authorities you actually use.
What DNS Management does
The 7 capabilities that make up DNS Management.
Multi-provider zones
Route 53, Azure DNS, Cloud DNS, Cloudflare and others read into one view with a consistent record model.
Reviewed changes
Changes are proposed with a diff, validated and optionally approved before they apply, and recorded with their author.
Dangling record detection
Records pointing at infrastructure that no longer exists are reported as takeover risk, checked against the live inventory.
TTL-aware previews
The change preview states how long the old value may still be cached, so migrations are planned rather than hoped.
Email authentication checks
SPF, DKIM and DMARC records validated for syntax, lookup limits and policy strength.
CAA alignment
CAA records checked against the certificate authorities actually issuing for your domains.
Propagation verification
After a change applies, resolvers are queried to confirm the new value is actually being served.
How DNS Management fits together
Outcomes
- One view of DNS regardless of how many providers history left you with.
- A typo is caught in a diff rather than in an incident.
- Subdomain takeover risk is found continuously instead of by a bug bounty report.
- Migrations are planned against real TTL behaviour.
- Every DNS change has an author and a record.
Using DNS Management, step by step
The path from connecting a source to getting value, in the order it happens.
- 1Connect providers
Zones are imported into a single record model.
- 2Propose a change
The diff is shown, validated and checked against the current TTL.
- 3Approve and apply
The change is applied to the provider and recorded with its author.
- 4Verify propagation
Resolvers are queried to confirm the new value is served.
- 5Monitor continuously
Dangling records, email authentication and CAA alignment are rechecked on a schedule.
Where teams apply DNS Management
Consolidate DNS across providers
Manage zones from several providers through one reviewed change path.
Close subdomain takeover risk
Find records pointing at decommissioned resources before someone else claims them.
Plan a migration
Lower TTLs ahead of a cutover with the preview stating the effective cache window.
Fix email authentication
Validate SPF, DKIM and DMARC against syntax, lookup limits and policy strength.
What DNS Management works with
Named integrations link to their own page. The rest are supported runtimes and formats.
DNS Management: frequently asked questions
The 6 questions teams ask most often before adopting DNS Management.
A dangling record points at infrastructure that no longer exists, for example a CNAME to a cloud service hostname that was released. It matters because someone else can often claim that hostname and then serve content on your subdomain, which is the subdomain takeover attack.
By checking each record target against the live infrastructure inventory and by resolving it. A target that resolves to nothing, or to a cloud service hostname not present in your accounts, is reported as a finding.
Yes. Zones from Route 53, Azure DNS, Cloud DNS, Cloudflare and others are read into one record model, so the estate is manageable regardless of how many providers it spans.
Changes are proposed rather than applied directly. The platform shows a diff, validates record syntax and semantics, states the effective cache window given the current TTL, and can require approval. After applying, it queries resolvers to confirm propagation.
Yes. These records are validated for syntax, for the SPF lookup limit, and for policy strength, so email authentication problems are found before they affect delivery.
Yes. Records created by external-dns are visible in the same inventory and included in dangling and configuration checks, so automated records are governed like manual ones.
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