How to Automate Google Workspace Domain Aliases Safely

Managing one domain in Google Workspace is straightforward. Managing ten, twenty, or more domains across several brands is where the process starts to hurt.

For every domain, an administrator has to prove ownership, publish a DNS record, wait for propagation, return to Google Workspace, add the domain, configure mail routing, and verify the result. None of those steps is especially difficult. The problem is repetition — and repetition is where small mistakes become outages.

I recently needed a better workflow for attaching a collection of brand domains to one Google Workspace account. The domains used GoDaddy DNS, and the intended behavior was simple: every existing Workspace user should receive the same username on every brand domain.

That made the domains good candidates for Google Workspace user alias domains. It also made the process a good candidate for automation. The result is a CSV-driven Python CLI with three commands — plan,...

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