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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This is a script that we wrote to try to help the migration over to using external-dns.  
+# This script looks at kubernetes ingresses and services (which are the two things we have 
+# external-dns looking at) and compares them to existing TXT and A records in route53 to 
+# find out where there are gaps.  It then assigns the heritage and owner TXT records where 
+# needed so external-dns can take over managing those resources. You can modify the script
+# to only look at one or the other if needed.
+#
+# pip install kubernetes boto3
+
+import boto3
+from kubernetes import client, config
+
+# replace with your hosted zone id
+hosted_zone_id = ''
+# replace with your txt-owner-id you are using
+# inside of your external-dns controller
+txt_owner_id = ''
+
+# change to false if you have external-dns not looking at services
+external_dns_manages_services = True
+
+# change to false if you have external-dns not looking at ingresses
+external_dns_manages_ingresses = True
+
+config.load_kube_config()
+
+# grab all the domains that k8s thinks it is going to 
+# manage (services with domainName specified and 
+# ingress hosts)
+k8s_domains = []
+
+if external_dns_manages_services:
+    v1 = client.CoreV1Api()
+    svcs = v1.list_service_for_all_namespaces()
+    for i in svcs.items:
+        annotations = i.metadata.annotations
+        if annotations is not None and 'domainName' in annotations:
+            k8s_domains.extend(annotations['domainName'].split(','))
+
+if external_dns_manages_ingresses:
+    ev1 = client.ExtensionsV1beta1Api()
+    ings = ev1.list_ingress_for_all_namespaces()
+    for i in ings.items:
+        for r in i.spec.rules:
+            if r.host not in k8s_domains:
+                k8s_domains.append(r.host)
+
+
+r53client = boto3.client('route53')
+
+# grab the existing route53 domains and identify gaps where a domain may be 
+# missing a txt record pair
+existing_r53_txt_domains=[]
+existing_r53_domains=[]
+has_next = True
+next_record_name, next_record_type='',''
+
+while has_next:
+    if next_record_name is not '' and next_record_type is not '':
+        resource_records = r53client.list_resource_record_sets(HostedZoneId=hosted_zone_id, 
+                                                               StartRecordName=next_record_name, 
+                                                               StartRecordType=next_record_type)
+    else:
+        resource_records = r53client.list_resource_record_sets(HostedZoneId=hosted_zone_id)
+
+    for r in resource_records['ResourceRecordSets']:
+        if r['Type'] == 'TXT':
+            existing_r53_txt_domains.append(r['Name'][:-1])
+        elif r['Type'] == 'A':
+            existing_r53_domains.append(r['Name'][:-1])
+    has_next = resource_records['IsTruncated']
+    if has_next:
+        next_record_name, next_record_type = resource_records['NextRecordName'], resource_records['NextRecordType']
+
+# grab only the domains in route53 that kubernetes is managing
+r53_k8s_domains = [r for r in k8s_domains if r in existing_r53_domains]
+# from those find the ones that do not have matching txt entries
+missing_k8s_txt = [r for r in r53_k8s_domains if r not in existing_r53_txt_domains]
+
+# make the change batch for the route53 call, modify this as needed
+change_batch=[]
+for r in missing_k8s_txt:
+    change_batch.append(
+        {
+            'Action': 'CREATE',
+            'ResourceRecordSet': {
+                'Name': r,
+                'Type': 'TXT',
+                'TTL': 300,
+                'ResourceRecords': [
+                    {
+                        'Value': '\heritage=external-dns,owner="' + txt_owner_id + '\"'
+                    },
+                ]
+            }
+        })
+
+print('This will create the following resources')
+print(change_batch)
+response = input("Good to go? ")  
+
+if response.lower() in ['y', 'yes', 'yup', 'ok', 'sure', 'why not', 'why not?']:
+    print('Updating route53')
+    change_response = r53client.change_resource_record_sets(
+                            HostedZoneId=hosted_zone_id,
+                            ChangeBatch={
+                              'Changes': change_batch
+                        })
+    print('Submitted change request to route53. Details below.')
+    print(change_response)
+else:
+    print('No changes were made')