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One of my latest projects was a fully dockerized name server infrastructure based on PowerDNS: one master and two slaves — one in the same subnet and the second running in a cloud on a basic virtual machine. Why PowerDNS? Because I needed an API, a proper admin-friendly web interface, user management, and LDAP integration. PowerDNS fully matched my requirements. Why Docker? Because I wanted some level of automation and IaC — Docker fits nicely in the middle, where you have several configs and docker-compose files fully describing the container configuration.

Some time ago I faced a serious challenge: migrating a large number of similar websites from DirectAdmin to ISPConfig with maximum automation. The hosting platform was changed, and doing everything manually simply wasn’t an option. To solve this, I wrote a better CLI wrapper for ISPConfig that focuses on usability while reusing the default API functions underneath: ispconfig-cli