C3c33s·Nov 17, 2024Submission
Should Hetzner unify their CLI tool/tf experience?
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A command-line interface for Hetzner Cloud
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4 sourceshopefully i am doing everything right and that is the right location and the right way to post this. it is my first post here on HN. being a long time reader of HN i thought maybe it is the right location to ask other developers to vote for a unified cli/terraform experience with hetzner.
hetzner brought me to terraform as they mentioned it in their documentation, newsletter or blog (i cannot remember). since then, i always preferred providers which had a good api or even better a good api and a terraform provider.
while working with terraform/opentofu to interact with hetzner i also use their cli tool to quickly create json/yaml lists of resources to import or interact with them. sadly the official terraform provider and the cli tool only supports their cloud product. i really miss that it also supports the new s3 object storage, their d
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ns and their share product. in the end i miss that the tool supports all their products and provides a unified way to interact with hetzner via cli and/or terraform.
the hcloud tool developers understandably say they only support the cloud api with their tool. in my opinion they really have done am awesome job with the hcloud tool. i hope we can get some traction and shovel some budget to them by creating support requests which ask for support of their other products which maybe lead to a support of all their product.
if you feel the same way, you can help: if you already have an account with some servers in it (paying customer), just login to your account and open a support ticket with the text "We vote for https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli/issues/918"
i assume votes from accounts without server will also count but will not weight as much as votes from accounts with a few servers which will weight less then accounts with a lot of servers. in the end they are a for-profit company which try to please their customers and provide the tools they need.
1. is this the right location and the right way to ask for that or is this request to specific to be of interest for HN?
2. should they provide a unified experience with their cli tool and tf provider? (why or why not?)
3. do you think voting in such way can really change a thing?
cheers
They also have a REST interface [1] and a command line tool [2] to do those operations (and others) without having to use the website.
[1] https://docs.hetzner.cloud/
[2] https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli
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