Flares is a CloudFlare DNS backup tool (opens in new tab)

I too enjoy taking my keys to the kingdom and piping a bash script with it to do stuff.

Well done. But you can use cf-terraforming easily. "cf-terraforming is a command line utility to facilitate terraforming your existing Cloudflare resources."

https://github.com/cloudflare/cf-terraforming

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I added an equivalent script after we moved to Cloudflare. I found it's easy to make a mistake in the Cloudflare DNS web interface, e.g. it's easy to accidentally remove an entry.

Now, at every deploy to production, we do a backup of the DNS configuration on Cloudflare and save it on S3. This hardly costs us anything as each backup is only a small text file. But I now feel much more comfortable when editing our DNS config.

If anybody from Cloudflare sees this - this is another good reason to add multiple API keys with permissions!

Cool tool! But why would I use this over dnscontrol, Terraform or OctoDNS?

This is REALLY cool! I'll be using this a lot!