Route53 + RaspberryPi + Cron + PHP =  lazy admin.

Thanks to my recently AWS-connected Pi, performing a scheduled DNS cutover from the comfort of my own bed could not have been easier.

With a little cron magic and some “Aws\Route53\Route53Client” you can easily schedule changes to Route53 records / record sets. 

<?php  
error\_reporting(E\_ALL);  
ini\_set("Display Errors", 1);  
require 'vendor/autoload.php';  
// Create client object for Route53  
$r53Client \= \\Aws\\Route53\\Route53Client::factory(array());  
// Create client object for SES  
$SesClient \= \\Aws\\Ses\\SesClient::factory(array(  
    'region' \=> 'us-east-1'  
));  
// Function for sending notifications if the record change fails or for confirmation that the change has been made.  
function StackNotification($body, $cnameDns)  
{  
    global $SesClient;  
    $stackSubject \= 'DNS Update Confirmation ' . "\[$cnameDns\]";  
    $SesClient\->sendEmail(array(  
        'Source' \=> 'blahblah@mitchyb.com',  
        'Destination' \=> array(  
            'ToAddresses' \=> array(  
                'blahblah@mitchyb.com'  
            )  
        ),  
        'Message' \=> array(  
            'Subject' \=> array(  
                'Data' \=> $stackSubject  
            ),  
            'Body' \=> array(  
                'Html' \=> array(  
                    'Data' \=> $body  
                )  
            )  
        )  
    ));  
}  
function updateRecord($elbDns, $cnameDns)  
{  
    global $r53Client;  
    global $cloudFormationStackName;  
    // Update DNS Records  
    try {  
        $command \= $r53Client\->changeResourceRecordSets(array(  
            'HostedZoneId' \=> 'Z16PRLGBWGMRUY',  
            'ChangeBatch' \=> (object) array(  
                'Changes' \=> (object) array(  
                    array(  
                        'Action' \=> 'UPSERT',  
                        'ResourceRecordSet' \=> array(  
                            'Name' \=> $cnameDns,  
                            'Type' \=> 'CNAME',  
                            'TTL' \=> 60 \* 5,  
                            'ResourceRecords' \=> array(  
                                array(  
                                    'Value' \=> $elbDns  
                                )  
                            )  
                        )  
                    )  
                )  
            )  
        ));  
          
        $msg \= "Route53 record updated to " . $elbDns;  
        StackNotification($msg, $cnameDns);  
    }  
    catch (Exception $e) {  
        $errorMsg \= "Route53 record update failed with error: $e";  
        trigger\_error($errorMsg);  
          
        StackNotification($errorMsg);  
        exit;  
    }  
}  
;  
// Call the record set update function.  
updateRecord('offline.mitchyb.com', 'blog.mitchyb.com');