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Integrating Google Cloud DNS with NIOS

Owned by Jyothi KP
Sept 05, 2024
2 min read

Google Cloud DNS is a robust and efficient service that facilitates name resolution for DNS domains within the Google Cloud infrastructure. When domains are hosted in Google Cloud, their DNS records can be managed by using the same credentials utilized for other Google services.

Starting from version 9.0.5, NIOS introduces the Google Cloud DNS integration feature. This feature enables you configure NIOS to integrate with Google Cloud DNS to discover and synchronize DNS data to NIOS for a unified visualization experience within NIOS. Note that the synchronization facilitated by this feature is unidirectional. This capability of NIOS, enhances the efficiency of DNS management by automating the process of data synchronization and ensures reliability with consistent and up-to-date DNS data within NIOS.

In Google Cloud, DNS records are organized into private and public managed zones. The Google Cloud DNS synchronization integrates these zones with the NIOS database, and keep them organized into private and public zones. This allows you to access DNS data through a unified console.

The DNS synchronization feature offers the following:

  • A unidirectional synchronization of DNS data from Google Cloud to a NIOS database. You can use a single cloud admin account and synchronize data from:

    • All child projects of a parent GCP project.

    • Selected projects of a parent GCP project.

  • A unified console (Grid Manager) across your enterprise networks and DNS zones.

  • Zone data consolidated to specific DNS views in NIOS through Grid Manager.

The following diagram illustrates how you can utilize the Google Cloud DNS integration feature in NIOS to achieve a centralized DNS data visualization:

  • The setup has a Grid that consists of on-premise networks and a GCP public cloud configured with Grid members to which the DNS data from Google Cloud DNS is synchronized.

  • The synchronized data is then transferred to the Grid Master to store the data in the NIOS database.

  • DNS clients in the enterprise data center can then query NIOS for the synchronized DNS data.

  • You can also view the synchronized DNS data from Grid Manager.

Note that the synchronization is unidirectional and is done at the managed zone level from Google Cloud to NIOS.

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