roadtrip 0.2.4
Route53 domain updates for humans.
License: BSD

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Roadtrip
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Route53 domain updates for humans.

Installation
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With pip::

    $ pip install roadtrip

With setuptools::

    $ easy_install roadtrip

Requirements
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Roadtrip requires `Python 2.7 <http://www.python.org>`_ and leans heavily on the shoulders of `Boto 2.25.0+ <http://boto.readthedocs.org>`_.

Using
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You can use roadtrip to update a round-robin A record, adding a new value if it doesn't already exist::

    $ roadtrip --type A --zone example.com --name mycluster.example.com --value 1.2.3.4 --add

There is also a compact syntax for each option::

    $ roadtrip -t A -z example.com -n mycluster.example.com -v 1.2.3.4 -a

You can also remove a value from a list::

    $ roadtrip --type A --zone example.com --name mycluster.example.com --value 1.2.3.4 --delete

You can also specify multiple values to be added, removed, or overwritten (which will discard all previous values)::

    $ roadtrip --type A --zone example.com --name mycluster.example.com --value 1.2.3.4 --value 1.2.3.5 --overwrite

You can also get help::

    usage: roadtrip [-h] --type {A,AAAA,CNAME,MX,NS,PTR,SOA,SPF,SRV,TXT} --zone
                    ZONE --name NAME --value VALUE [--ttl TTL]
                    (--add | --delete | --overwrite) [--access-key ACCESS_KEY]
                    [--secret-key SECRET_KEY] [--verbose]

    Update a Route53 record, adding or removing values.

    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      --type {A,AAAA,CNAME,MX,NS,PTR,SOA,SPF,SRV,TXT}, -t {A,AAAA,CNAME,MX,NS,PTR,SOA,SPF,SRV,TXT}
                            The type of record to update.
      --zone ZONE, -z ZONE  The domain name or zone ID.
      --name NAME, -n NAME  The name to update.
      --value VALUE, -v VALUE
                            The data to add or remove. This argument can be used
                            multiple times to add or remove multiple values.
      --ttl TTL, -l TTL     Non-default TTL value.
      --add, -a             Add the value.
      --delete, -d          Remove the value.
      --overwrite, -o       Overwrite all existing values with those provided.
      --access-key ACCESS_KEY, -k ACCESS_KEY
                            Your AWS access key. Will override the
                            AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID environment variable.
      --secret-key SECRET_KEY, -s SECRET_KEY
                            Your AWS secret key. Will override the
                            AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY envionrment variable.
      --verbose, -vv        Verbose output.


You can set a non-default TTL value with ``--ttl`` and enable verbose output with ``--verbose``.

Roadtrip will use the ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`` and ``AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variables if they are set. You
can provide these values yourself or override the environment variables by providing ``--access-key`` and ``--secret-key``.

Under the hood
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Roadtrip will do its best not to add an entry that already exists or delete an entry that doesn't. It uses
`UPSERT <http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2014/01/new-features-for-route-53-improved-health-checks-https-record-modification.html>`_
to update the values based on the values that exist when you call it.

.. WARNING::

    Due to the nature of eventual consistency there is a chance that the values that roadtrip sees when it is run
    are different than the values stored in Route53. **ROADTRIP MIGHT HELP YOU LOSE DATA** if you are not careful.
    Please be careful.