coredns/dynapi v0.1.0: an HTTP API for CoreDNS records, 8 years later

tl;dr coredns/dynapi v0.1.0 is out, published on 2026-10-01. It is an external CoreDNS plugin. Applications read, replace and delete A and AAAA record sets through a JSON HTTP API. The idea started as coredns/coredns#1822. I opened that PR on 2018-05-20. It was closed on 2018-09-29, when the coredns/dynapi repository was created. That repository stayed empty for eight years. The plugin in v0.1.0 is a new design, not a port of the old code. Why I needed it At SumUp we had what felt like an amazing idea: build our own take on ArgoCD. It was a Kubernetes-based deployment system for on-demand dev environments, and it ran on bare metal instances. It worked. ...

October 2, 2026 · 10 min