When updating an app Location, we have multiple A records that need removing

[marcusquinn]

@murgero Yeah, know all that. Our use-case is unusual. It's just as I said above. I don't think the Cloudron DNS API scripts ever considered finding multiple A records for the same domain/subdomain because it's not a common setup to go from in that process.

[girish]

Right, it's entirely possible that our scripts don't handle multiple DNS records. Is this Route 53 ? These things tend to be provider specific.

I will mark this as a bug (instead of feature request).

[girish]

I opened https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/743 (assumed it's route53 unless you tell me otherwise).

[marcusquinn]

@girish thanks, it's apparent with Cloudflare but I expect the issue would be with any of them.

[robi]

Maybe one way around this would be to set up redirects for that app that match the existing records, then Cloudron would be 'aware' of them.

Still manual work.

[marcusquinn]

@robi Manual fix is just deleting the old triple records manually. Lots of domains though, and it's something that ought to be fixable with a checkpoint loop in the api call. Saving a few hours in a devs day is rather valuable.

[robi]

@marcusquinn can one do loops in postman or similar?

[marcusquinn]

@robi I can do it manually in Cloudflare. Not looking for workarounds.

It's just a nuisance factor in having to explain it to every developer working on migrations from K8S setups to Cloudron Apps.

K8S for high-availability is interesting but not as performant, cost-efficient or quick to replicate, hence moving our focus to single server apps and we'll then work on a new approach to HA.

[robi]

@marcusquinn said in When updating an app Location, we have multiple A records that need removing:

K8S for high-availability is interesting but not as performant, cost-efficient or quick to replicate, hence moving our focus to single server apps and we'll then work on a new approach to HA.

Sounds like a plan and a boost to getting HA Cloudron running.

[marcusquinn]

@robi yeah, with ecommerce being our primary business, we're invested in this. We have 12 very experienced devs on the team but just a few of them have had time to start looking at Cloudron this week. In this for the long-term though so I'm sure you'll start to see our work filtering through very soon.