Integration with Compute Cloud

You can immediately assign domain names to VMs when creating them in Compute Cloud.

To add a VM to a zone when creating it, select the desired zone and set a domain name under Network settings. You can connect VM interfaces to different subnets and get domain names in different zones. If you don't specify a zone, the VM will get a domain name in the standard zone of the subnet that it will be connected to. For instructions on how to create VMs, see Creating a VM from a public Linux image.

Currently, you can't immediately add a record with a public IP address to a domain zone while creating a VM. You can add a record manually after you create the VM.

Using Cloud DNS for instance groups

When assigning an FQDN to a VM instance from a group, the name specified in the instance template is used for all instances in the group: a set of records with the same names but different IPs in the values is created.

You can use variables from instance templates when creating records. For example, if you specify a record name like web_server_{instance.index}, you can create records with unique names of instances from a group. If you set a name like web_server_{instance.zone_id}, you can create records for all instances within a single availability zone.