Automatic deployment of BAM and BDDS VMs for lab testing

1. Obtain Bluecat deployment files The OVA, patches and updates are available at: https://care.bluecatnetworks.com/s/article/DNS-Integrity-Released-GA-Patches

Get all of the base OVA, patches and updates and:

• move all OVA to the ova directory
• move all updates to the updates directory
• move all patches to the patches directory

2. Fetch yourself an existing BAM backup file to deploy (if any) Put the backup file into backups.

3. Build bluecat_config.yaml Copy sample_bluecat_config.yaml to ~/.bluecat_config.yaml and edit to your liking

4. Add X.509 cert for the BAM Put into certs an <fqdn>.crt and <fqdn>.key that shall be deployed to BAM.

5. Add migration XML (if needed) All migration XML go into migration.

TODO:

• IPv6 config of BAM
• only pushing relevant updates would be nice
• Server objects on BAM need to be dual-stacked (API needs to learn IPv6 first)
• Validation of deployed BDDS (reading zones from BAM and asking DNS/DHCP via service)
• deploying non-BDDS DNS secondary service(s) and ensure sync to DNS service (build the named.conf from BAM API)
• add backup schedule to BAM

Default logins: https://docs.bluecatnetworks.com/r/BlueCat-default-login-credentials/BlueCat-default-login-credentials