A DNS Zone, and a Plain Account of Why It Is Not Yet Serving Anybody
A DigitalOcean domain and its records. Creating the zone does not delegate it: until the registrar's nameservers point here the zone is correct, complete and serving nobody, which looks exactly like a working zone. The domain's ip_address shortcut, which hides an apex A record from your records map, is deliberately not used, and a CNAME at the apex is refused.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- No applicable security policies for this provider
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-15 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "dns_zone" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/do-dns-zone/digitalocean"
version = "1.0.0"
}Needs a registry token from /account/tokens. The module itself is free; the account is what identifies you. Full setup: registry docs.
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Documentation
do-dns-zone
A DNS zone on DigitalOcean. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu
(>= 1.6), digitalocean provider >= 2.0, < 3.0.
Creating the zone does not delegate it. Until the registrar's nameservers point here the zone is correct, complete and serving nobody - which looks exactly like a working zone in the control panel.
ip_address on the domain quietly creates an apex A record that does not appear in your records map. Not used here; the apex record is written like every other one.
A CNAME at the apex is not valid DNS, and it breaks every other apex record in the zone. Refused.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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