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Lightsail Container Service - What IP to use for DNS

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I'm trying to connect my domain to a Lightsail Container Service. The DNS records are hosted at Cloudflare.

When running a VPS, I would usually update the DNS A-record to point to the static IP address for my server, but I can't work out how to attach a public static IP to my container service, and as far as I can tell the apex of a domain must point to an IP address.

Can this be achieved without moving my DNS service to Amazon?

Topics
ComputeContainersNetworking & Content Delivery
Tags
Amazon LightsailContainersDomain Name System (DNS)
Language
English
rePost-User-8534564
asked 2 years ago295 views
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I discovered a solution.

Cloudflare actually allows you to use a CNAME for the apex/root of your domain and it implements something it calls "CNAME flattening" to resolve the IP at the end of the chain.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root/

rePost-User-8534564
answered 2 years ago

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