CoreDNS
Flexible, plugin-based DNS server
CoreDNS is an open-source DNS server and forwarder built on a plugin architecture, and is the default DNS for Kubernetes. It can be self-hosted as a general-purpose DNS server with extensible behavior.
Key features
- Plugin-based architecture
- Kubernetes service discovery
- Multiple backends
- Lightweight
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Mature project with 14.2k GitHub stars
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