Manage compute seamlessly with the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin
The BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin provisions compute to support updates for DNS name resolution across the enterprise.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.The article describes the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin, an integration that connects OpenStack orchestration with enterprise DNS and IPAM to speed provisioning and maintain system integrity. It addresses the real-world problem of manual, time-consuming IP and DNS provisioning when OpenStack operates without enterprise-wide DNS visibility, by automatically syncing host and IP changes into BlueCat Address Manager. The outcome is streamlined automated management of IP addresses and DNS records, improving availability and reducing delays for business applications and services.
What problem does the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin solve for organizations using OpenStack?
The plugin resolves the lack of integration between OpenStack and enterprise DNS/IPAM systems, which otherwise forces network teams into manual provisioning processes. Those manual steps increase the time required to make network resources available and can delay access to business applications. By automatically syncing host and IP changes to BlueCat Address Manager and updating DNS servers, the plugin reduces provisioning time, maintains system integrity, and provides visibility into OpenStack-provisioned compute across the enterprise.
Which DNS and IPAM actions can be automated with the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin?
According to the article, the plugin automates a range of standard network actions within BlueCat Address Manager: managing BlueCat credentials and information, handling multiple subnet designations, creating IP addresses, creating DNS records, selective deployment of DNS records, and deprovisioning IP addresses and DNS. These automated capabilities allow OpenStack-driven changes to be reflected across the enterprise DNS infrastructure without manual intervention, ensuring consistent name resolution and IP allocations.
How does the plugin maintain system integrity while synchronizing OpenStack changes to enterprise DNS?
The article explains that the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin communicates OpenStack provisioned changes to BlueCat Address Manager using a simple integration that provides visibility into compute resources. By automatically syncing host and IP changes to Address Manager, it updates DNS servers across the enterprise in a controlled manner. This approach avoids ad hoc manual changes that can compromise integrity, ensuring orchestration-driven updates are propagated reliably and consistently to maintain DNS name resolution and IPAM accuracy.
OpenStack is one of the leading mechanisms to control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources. Operated across datacenters and clouds, OpenStack manages and provisions network elements through APIs using common authentication mechanisms. Beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, OpenStack also provides orchestration, fault management, and service management to ensure high availability of user applications.
Managing all of these resources at scale requires visibility throughout the networking stack. To reliably orchestrate changes across the enterprise, network administrators need a quick and easy way to provision IP space and ensure DNS name resolution. To do this, OpenStack needs a way to communicate with DNS infrastructure and push changes across the enterprise without compromising system integrity.
Without OpenStack integrated into the broader enterprise, it can take a lot more time to get network resources up and running as network teams work through manual provisioning processes. These delays ultimately down access to resources for business applications and services.
That’s why we built the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin. With this simple integration, BlueCat provides visibility into all OpenStack provisioned compute to support updates for DNS name resolution across the enterprise. The plugin automatically syncs host and IP changes to the BlueCat Address Manager to update DNS servers.
Here’s a quick demo of the BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plug-In at work.
The BlueCat OpenStack Adaptive Plugin gives users the power to automatically configure and manage a wide variety of standard network actions:
Manage BlueCat Address Manager credentials and information
Manage multiple subnet designations
Create IP address(es)
Create DNS record(s)
Selectively deploy of DNS record(s)
Deprovisioning IP addresses and DNS
Ready to bring your BlueCat Adaptive DNS infrastructure into your OpenStack environment? Check out our network automation resources and then contact your BlueCat representative.
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