R53Update command line utility

R53Update is a command line utility for Amazon Route 53 which is one of the AWS (Amazon Web Services). This tools is useful to anyone who wants to operate server with dynamic IP. You can operate not only the server which is hosted on Amazon EC2 but also on-premise servers.

Requirements

• Internet connection (with global IP)
• pre-configured Amazon Route53 hosted zone
• python2.6+ and pip command

Amazon Route 53 hosted zone

To create Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, please refer to the following url.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/CreatingHostedZone.html

Python & PIP

If you want to install python and pip via binary installer, you can generally do so through the basic package-management tool that comes with your distribution. If you're on Debian-based distribution, you can use apt-get:

sudo apt-get install python{,-dev,-pip} build-essentials

If you're on a Redhat-based distribution like Fedora, CentOS, etc... try yum:

sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum -y install python{,-devel,-pip}

Install

sudo -H pip install git+https://github.com/tuntunkun/r53update

Usage

If you have already configured AWS profile and Route 53 hosted zone, it is very simple to use.

r53update www example.com

Configurable Variable

Variable	Option	Default	Description
PROFILE	--profile	default	profile name which is configured by aws-cli
METHOD	--method	localhost	detection method of global IP
IFACE	--iface	n/a	name of the network interface

The method of global IP detection

You can specify the method of global IP detection by '--method' option.
Available method is as follows.

Method Name	Method	Multiple IP	Description
opendns.com	DNS	not supported
ifconfig.me	HTTP	not supported
ipecho.net	HTTP	not supported
icanhazip.com	HTTP	not supported
localhost	NIC	supported	require '--iface' option

License

(C)2015 Takuya Sawada.

R53Update is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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