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PowerDNS Cloud Control

Cloud-Native DNS. Automated. Scalable. Production Ready.

PowerDNS Cloud Control is the cloud-native deployment and operations platform for the complete PowerDNS product portfolio.

Built on Kubernetes and modern cloud-native technologies, Cloud Control automates the deployment, scaling, monitoring, and lifecycle management of PowerDNS solutions.

By combining containerization, orchestration, automation, visibility, and intelligent DNS-specific capabilities, Cloud Control enables organizations to build resilient, geographically distributed DNS infrastructures that scale from enterprise deployments to nationwide and global service provider networks.


Automate 

 Deploy, configure, upgrade, and manage PowerDNS services using Kubernetes-native automation and Helm-based lifecycle management. 


Scale

Dynamically scale DNS services based on query volumes, latency, CPU utilization, or other operational metrics.


 Observe

Gain immediate visibility into DNS performance and infrastructure health with native Prometheus metrics, alerting, and Grafana dashboards.


 Distribute 

Deploy DNS services across data centers, cloud regions, and edge locations while managing your infrastructure consistently.

Coping with the Velocity of Change

Cloud-native: The best way of addressing today’s DNS requirements

Whether on a country-wide or global scale, consumers and enterprises are using the internet more – content streaming, remote/home working, IoT, 5G, M2M communication etc. These all lead to higher demands on DNS, both authoritative and recursive.

Traditional deployment models based on bare metal, virtual machines, and manual configuration struggle to provide the automation, orchestration, lifecycle management, and observability required at this scale.

The answer: Cloud-native DNS.

  • High scalability with elastic scaling for unpredictable demand
  • Geographic distribution and DNS services located close to users
  • Remote automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
  • Colocation of services at the edge using containerization to eliminate VM overhead
  • Minimized costs for deploying hundreds or thousands of servers in several geographic locations
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Everything You Need for Cloud-Native DNS

PowerDNS Cloud Control combines the technologies and DNS-specific capabilities needed to operate modern DNS infrastructure on Kubernetes.

  • Kubernetes-native deployments
  • OCI-compliant container images
  • Helm-based deployment and lifecycle management
  • GitOps support using Argo or Flux
  • Horizontal auto-scaling
  • DNS-aware scaling
  • Automatic backend discovery
  • Dynamic DNSdist configuration
  • Kubernetes Operators and Agents
  • CRD-based automation
  • Native Prometheus metrics
  • Pre-configured alerting
  • Grafana dashboards
  • IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack support
  • Multus support
  • Edge-ready deployments
  • Centralized management
  • Support for the entire PowerDNS product portfolio
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Combining Graduated Cloud-Native Technologies for Cloud-Native PowerDNS

Containerization

PowerDNS software is available as Docker images through a private registry. Compared to legacy DNS technology on VMs, our Docker images let you use your system resources more efficiently, save storage, provide quicker turnaround and reduce budget.

Automated Deployment, Orchestration & Lifecycle Management

PowerDNS Cloud Control is based on the standard for container orchestration – Kubernetes. It ships with Helm charts to easily deploy and configure PowerDNS components, and custom resource definitions and operators for custom workloads. Control loops ensure that a system matches your desired state while REST APIs are available to perform checks and changes if required. This reduces complexity and allows operations teams to design, deploy, and manage DNS installations more easily, using less manpower. Using Kubernetes allows them to concentrate on the desired state of the deployment, without worrying about how to achieve that state.

Scalability

PowerDNS Cloud Control and Kubernetes enhance deployment capabilities and allow for a highly scalable deployment. Deploy containerized PowerDNS services close to your users while managing them through a consistent Kubernetes-based architecture. Cloud Control is designed for geographically distributed deployments across data centers, cloud regions, and edge locations. Additional workloads (Kubernetes Pods) can be easily defined and added where and when needed.

Monitoring & Alerting

Given the criticality of DNS to the overall internet experience, monitoring and alerting are particularly important. Prometheus enables PowerDNS to collect, process, and prepare metrics, as well as provide alerts, about critical events. Grafana visualizes collected data in graphs and dashboards. The add-on PowerDNS Single Pane of Glass provides centralized visibility and management for PowerDNS Cloud Control deployments across multiple clusters.

Configuration & Operations

PowerDNS Cloud Control brings containerization, orchestration, monitoring, and alerting together into one solution across multiple Kubernetes clusters. This gives operators a straightforward way to visualize, configure, monitor, and even deploy cloud-native PowerDNS software.

Multi-Cluster DNS. One View.

Extend Cloud Control with PowerDNS Single Pane of Glass to gain centralized visibility and management across multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Consolidate operational data, health information, and performance metrics into a single interface to monitor distributed DNS infrastructure more efficiently, accelerate troubleshooting, and maintain consistent operations across data centers, cloud regions, and edge locations.

Ready to step into the world of cloud-native DNS?