The latest Amazon service Route 53 is a great addition, but only has a rudimentary set of tools available at the time of release. This script fills that gap until things have caught up.
Features:
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create hosted zones
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delete hosted zones
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list hosted zones
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import to BIND format
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export to BIND format
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create resource records
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delete resource records
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works with BIND format zone files we all know and love - no need to edit <ChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest> XML!
Create a hosted zone: ./cli53.py create example.com
Check what we've done: ./cli53.py list
Import a BIND zone file: ./cli53.py import example.com --file zonefile.txt
Replace with an imported zone, waiting for completion: ./cli53.py import example.com --file zonefile.txt --replace --wait
Manually create some records: ./cli53.py rrcreate example.com www A 192.168.0.1 --ttl 3600 ./cli53.py rrcreate example.com www A 192.168.0.2 --ttl 3600 --replace ./cli53.py rrcreate example.com '' MX '10 192.168.0.1' '20 192.168.0.2'
Export as a BIND zone file (useful for checking): ./cli53.py export example.com
Further documentation is available, e.g.: ./cli53.py --help ./cli53.py rrcreate --help
Buildout will download all the dependencies needed in order to run cli53.
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
Once the dependencies downloaded, run cli53
$ bin/cli53
You need to set your Amazon credentials in the environment as AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
As Amazon limits operations to a maximum of 100 changes, if you perform a large operation that changes over 100 resource records it will be split. An operation that involves deletes, followed by updates such as an import with --replace will very briefly leave the domain inconsistent. You have been warned!