In many projects, you might have custom DNS entries, for example for your development environment, or because something is prototype without a real DNS entry yet, or simply for convenience to not remember weird IP addresses.
Currently, these special domains might be used in the configuration of a project (say, the DB server is db1.acme.local), and that’s version controlled and everything, but creating the actual DNS entry (in the hosts file for example) is still manual and therefore error prone.
Has anyone figured out a nice solution to this? Or do you all have super quick IT departments that’ll give you real domains instantly?^^
Not a DevOps eng so this might not be the most elegant answer but you could write an Ansible playbook to edit a hosts file on the target server and trigger that after deployment, within your CI/CD pipeline.
In an ideal situation, though, all your servers connect to a centralised DNS server (usually your gateway) where those domain names are managed.