PowerDNS-Admin

PowerDNS Web-GUI - Built by Flask

Features:

• Multiple domain management
• Local / LDAP user authentication
• User management
• User access management base on domain
• User activity logging
• Dashboard and pdns service statistics

Setup

pdns Service

I assume that you have already installed powerdns service. Make sure that your /etc/pdns/pdns.conf has these contents

experimental-json-interface=yes
experimental-api-key=your-powerdns-api-key
webserver=yes

It will help to enable API access feature in PowerDNS so our PowerDNS-Admin can intergrate with backend services.

Create Database

We will create a database which used by this web application. Please note that this database is difference from pdns database itself.

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE powerdnsadmin;

MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON powerdnsadmin.* TO powerdnsadmin@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password';

PowerDNS-Admin

In this installation guide, I am using CentOS 7 and run my python stuffs with virtualenv. If you don't have it, let install:

$ sudo yum install python-pip
$ sudo pip install virtualenv

In your python web app directory, create a flask directory via virtualenv

$ virtualenv flask

Enable virtualenv and install python 3rd libraries

$ source ./flask/bin/activate
(flask)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Web application configuration is stored in config.py file. Let's clone it from config_template.py file and then edit it

(flask)$ copy config_template.py config.py 
(flask)$ vim config.py

Create database after having proper configs

(flask)% ./createdb.py

Manually add some data into our powerdnsadmin database

$ mysql

MariaDB [(none)]> use powerdnsadmin;

MariaDB [powerdnsadmin]> INSERT INTO role(name, description) VALUES ('Administrator', 'Administrator');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [powerdnsadmin]> INSERT INTO role(name, description) VALUES ('User', 'User');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

MariaDB [powerdnsadmin]> INSERT INTO setting(name, value) VALUES('maintenance', 'False');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Run the application and enjoy!

(flask)$ ./run.py

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