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Terraform in Yandex Cloud
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    • Overview
    • Release notes
          • dns_recordset
          • dns_zone
          • dns_zone_iam_binding

In this article:

  • Example usage
  • Schema
  • Required
  • Optional
  • Read-Only
  • Nested Schema for timeouts
  • Import
  1. Terraform reference
  2. Resources
  3. Cloud Domain Name System (DNS)
  4. Resources
  5. dns_zone

yandex_dns_zone (Resource)

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at August 7, 2025
  • Example usage
  • Schema
    • Required
    • Optional
    • Read-Only
    • Nested Schema for timeouts
  • Import

Manages a DNS Zone.

Example usageExample usage

//
// Create a new DNS Zone.
//
resource "yandex_dns_zone" "zone1" {
  name        = "my-private-zone"
  description = "desc"

  labels = {
    label1 = "label-1-value"
  }

  zone             = "example.com."
  public           = false
  private_networks = [yandex_vpc_network.foo.id]

  deletion_protection = true
}

resource "yandex_dns_recordset" "rs1" {
  zone_id = yandex_dns_zone.zone1.id
  name    = "srv.example.com."
  type    = "A"
  ttl     = 200
  data    = ["10.1.0.1"]
}

// Auxiliary resource for DNS Zone
resource "yandex_vpc_network" "foo" {}

SchemaSchema

RequiredRequired

  • zone (String) The DNS name of this zone, e.g. example.com.. Must ends with dot.

OptionalOptional

  • deletion_protection (Boolean) The true value means that resource is protected from accidental deletion.
  • description (String) The resource description.
  • folder_id (String) The folder identifier that resource belongs to. If it is not provided, the default provider folder-id is used.
  • labels (Map of String) A set of key/value label pairs which assigned to resource.
  • name (String) The resource name.
  • private_networks (Set of String) For privately visible zones, the set of Virtual Private Cloud resources that the zone is visible from.
  • public (Boolean) The zone's visibility: public zones are exposed to the Internet, while private zones are visible only to Virtual Private Cloud resources.
  • timeouts (Block, Optional) (see below for nested schema)

Read-OnlyRead-Only

  • created_at (String) The creation timestamp of the resource.
  • id (String) The ID of this resource.

Nested Schema for Nested Schema for timeouts

Optional:

  • create (String) A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours).
  • delete (String) A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours). Setting a timeout for a Delete operation is only applicable if changes are saved into state before the destroy operation occurs.
  • update (String) A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours).

ImportImport

The resource can be imported by using their resource ID. For getting the resource ID you can use Yandex Cloud Web Console or YC CLI.

# terraform import yandex_dns_zone.<resource Name> <resource Id>
terraform import yandex_dns_zone.zone1 dns9m**********tducf

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