Get Started

Get started with cloudflare-operator

This tutorial shows you how to get started with using cloudflare-operator and create a sample DNS record.

Before you begin

The following prerequisites are required to complete this tutorial:

A Kubernetes cluster with cloudflare-operator installed (follow the installation guide)
A Cloudflare account

Attention! ⚠️
Note that after a successful installation and configuration, cloudflare-operator will delete ALL DNS records in EVERY ZONE to which the API token has access!
It is therefore highly recommended to export your existing DNS records first!

Create Cloudflare API token

The token can be created by following this guide.

The following permissions are required:

Zone:Zone:Read
Zone:DNS:Edit

Configure the following Zone resources:

Include:All zones

or, if you want to limit the zones to which the token has access:

Include:Specific zone:example.com

The summary should look similar to this:

All zones - Zone:Read, DNS:Edit

Configure Cloudflare account

Create a secret with the previously created Cloudflare API token.

Note
The key in the secret must be named apiToken.

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
type: Opaque
metadata:
  name: cloudflare-api-token
  namespace: cloudflare-operator
stringData:
  apiToken: 1234

Next, create an account object:

---
apiVersion: cloudflare-operator.io/v1
kind: Account
metadata:
  name: account-sample
spec:
  apiToken:
    secretRef:
      name: cloudflare-api-token
      namespace: cloudflare-operator

⚠️ BE CAREFUL! ⚠️
Did you export your existing DNS records?
After creating the account, cloudflare-operator will delete ALL DNS records in EVERY ZONE to which the API token has access!
This is your last chance to export your existing DNS records!

Check if the account is ready:

kubectl get accounts.cloudflare-operator.io

This should output the following:

NAME             READY
account-sample   True

kubectl get zones.cloudflare-operator.io

NAME          ZONE NAME      ID                                 READY
example-com   example.com    12345678901234567890123456789012   True

Create a DNS record

Now, we can create our first DNS record:

---
apiVersion: cloudflare-operator.io/v1
kind: DNSRecord
metadata:
  name: example-com
  namespace: cloudflare-operator
spec:
  name: example.com
  type: A
  content: 69.42.0.69
  proxied: true
  ttl: 1
  interval: 5m0s

Check the status of the DNS record:

kubectl get dnsrecords.cloudflare-operator.io --namespace cloudflare-operator

NAME            RECORD NAME     TYPE    READY
example-com     example.com     A       True

Last modified August 14, 2023: fix: use correct interval format (1009d41)