Denis is a Slack bot. He can respond to commands and manage DNS zones, capable of things like adding A or CNAME records.

It was created as the solution to a development team having to keep track of numerous IP addresses for development APIs and servers, so we wanted a way to quickly point subdomains at them. It's still very basic at the moment, but Denis is a good kid and is eager to learn new tricks from your pull requests.

1. npm install denis-bot

2. Create a Bot integration in Slack

3. Copy the Slack token and add it to config/config.json under slack.apiKey, or pass it as SLACK_API_TOKEN environment variable

4. Configure your provider in config/config.json

5. Launch Denis with npm start

6. Done. Be cool with Denis!

Denis reponds to commands that begin with a mention to his username. In the examples we'll use denis as his username, but it'll work with whatever username you set for your bot. He currently knows only two things:

Command:

@denis: what is my-site.domain.com?

Response:

I can tell you that my-site.domain.com is a A record pointing to 1.2.3.4.

Command:

@denis: redirect my-new-site.domain.com to 2.3.4.5

Response:

:tada: Done! I've created a A record pointing my-new-site.domain.com to 2.3.4.5.

It detects whether the value you're pointing to is an IP address or another domain, and based on that creates either an A or a CNAME record respectively.

Denis was built to support multiple DNS providers. Currently, only CloudFlare is supported, but you can add your own provider by creating a class for it under providers/ — if you do, please make sure you contribute back and send a PR!

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