PowerDNS in a Box: a Docker Compose stack for trying authoritative DNS

The problem You&rsquo;ve decided to run your own authoritative DNS. Maybe you want to delegate a subdomain to a VPS for some experiment, maybe you&rsquo;ve outgrown what your registrar&rsquo;s nameservers let you do, or maybe you just want to learn the internals. PowerDNS is the obvious pick. Then you start reading: gmysql backend, schema file, pdns.conf, dnsdist sitting in front for ACLs and load…