---
layout: "google"
page_title: "Google: google_dns_record_set"
sidebar_current: "docs-google-dns-record-set"
description: |-
  Manages a set of DNS records within Google Cloud DNS.
---

# google\_dns\_record\_set

Manages a set of DNS records within Google Cloud DNS.

~> **Note:** The Google Cloud DNS API requires NS records be present at all
times. To accommodate this, when creating NS records, the default records
Google automatically creates will be silently overwritten.  Also, when
destroying NS records, Terraform will not actually remove NS records, but will
report that it did.

## Example Usage

### Binding a DNS name to the ephemeral IP of a new instance:

```hcl
resource "google_dns_record_set" "frontend" {
  name = "frontend.${google_dns_managed_zone.prod.dns_name}"
  type = "A"
  ttl  = 300

  managed_zone = "${google_dns_managed_zone.prod.name}"

  rrdatas = ["${google_compute_instance.frontend.network_interface.0.access_config.0.assigned_nat_ip}"]
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "frontend" {
  name         = "frontend"
  machine_type = "g1-small"
  zone         = "us-central1-b"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-8"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network       = "default"
    access_config = {}
  }
}

resource "google_dns_managed_zone" "prod" {
  name     = "prod-zone"
  dns_name = "prod.mydomain.com."
}
```

### Adding a SPF record

`\"` must be added around your `rrdatas` for a SPF record. Otherwise `rrdatas` string gets split on spaces.

```hcl
resource "google_dns_record_set" "spf" {
  name = "frontend.${google_dns_managed_zone.prod.dns_name}"
  managed_zone = "${google_dns_managed_zone.prod.name}"
  type = "TXT"
  ttl  = 300

  rrdatas = ["\"v=spf1 ip4:111.111.111.111 include:backoff.email-example.com -all\""]
}

resource "google_dns_managed_zone" "prod" {
  name     = "prod-zone"
  dns_name = "prod.mydomain.com."
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `managed_zone` - (Required) The name of the zone in which this record set will
    reside.

* `name` - (Required) The DNS name this record set will apply to.

* `rrdatas` - (Required) The string data for the records in this record set
    whose meaning depends on the DNS type. For TXT record, if the string data contains spaces, add surrounding `\"` if you don't want your string to get split on spaces.

* `ttl` - (Required) The time-to-live of this record set (seconds).

* `type` - (Required) The DNS record set type.

- - -

* `project` - (Optional) The project in which the resource belongs. If it
    is not provided, the provider project is used.

## Attributes Reference

Only the arguments listed above are exposed as attributes.