Managing Domains Across Multi-cloud Environments

How to Add Domains from a Cloud Provider into DDI Central

1. Select the Cloud Observability Cluster from the top-right corner of the DDI Central management console.
2. This will open the cluster's DNS and IPAM configurations (if both DNS & DHCP were chosen for Service type field while creating the Cloud Observability cluster).
3. Navigate to Settings → Provider Profile.
4. From the Provider dropdown, choose your desired cloud provider.
5. Enter your provider's authentication credentials. Upon entering the credentials, DDI Central will initiate and complete the authentication process.
6. Upon successful authentication, DDI Central auto-discovers and fetches all domain names available under that provider as shown in the image below.

7. Choose the domain names you want to manage through DDI Central and click Migrate.
8. Note: During the first-time migration, you can select or deselect domains directly from the Provider Profile page. Once integrated, you can continue managing or adding new domains directly from DNS → Add Domain.

How to Manage Records from Multi-cloud Environments within DDI Central

To access and manage all the discovered domains in DDI Central Console:

1. Select the DNS menu from the menu bar along the left pane and navigate to the Domains page.
2. View all discovered domains across providers in a unified list.

3. The Provider column identifies the source provider of each domain.
4. Domains that are DNSSEC-enabled by their providers will display a green security shield icon for easy identification.

To Manage Records:

• Click any blue hyperlinked domain name to access its resource records.
• On the records page that appears, drill down into the Domain name, navigate to the record section of your choice and:
  • Add new records by clicking the blue (+) icon
  • Delete records using the red (-) icon
• Need updated records? Click the Sync Records button in the top right corner to fetch the latest changes from the provider.
• Use the Export button (top-right) to download all records in .txt format.

How to Provision New Domains from DDI Central to Multiple Cloud Providers

1. Choose a Cloud Observability Cluster with a valid provider integration.
2. Go to DNS → Add Domain.
3. Select the provider from the dropdown list.
4. Next, for the Discover Existing Domains field, two options are available:
   • Yes → DDI Central will discover existing domains from the provider.

• Note: Discovered domains are marked with a cloud icon; undiscovered/excluded domains are shown with a cross icon.
• No → Provision a new domain directly from DDI Central with full bi-directional sync support.

4. In the Name field, enter the new domain you intend to create.

5. Click Save. The domain will appear in the Domains page along with its associated provider as shown below.
 

 

6. Click on the new domain name to manage its records. The records section will be empty initially, but NS records are auto-populated with the provider’s nameservers.
 

 

Audit Trails for All Actions

DDI Central maintains a comprehensive audit log for every action performed on domains and DNS records in a cloud observability cluster—including creation, edits, syncs, and deletions.

How to Exclude a Domain from a Cloud Observability Cluster

1. Navigate to DNS → Domains page.
2. Click the red delete icon located at the extreme right end of the domain name you'd like to remove.
3. Confirm the action by selecting Yes when prompted.

General Notes