SoftLayer DNS
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To use this provider, add an entry to creds.json
with TYPE
set to SOFTLAYER
along with authentication fields. Authenticating with SoftLayer requires at least a username
and api_key
for authentication. It can also optionally take a timeout
and endpoint_url
parameter however these are optional and will use standard defaults if not provided.
Example:
To maintain compatibility with existing softlayer CLI services these can also be provided by the SL_USERNAME
and SL_API_KEY
environment variables or specified in the ~/.softlayer
, but this is discouraged. More information about these methods can be found at .
An example configuration:
This provider does not recognize any special metadata fields unique to SoftLayer dns. For compatibility with the pre-generated NAMESERVER fields it's recommended to set the NS TTL to 86400 such as: