SLslig·Oct 17, 2025
Anyone here using
https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
Or
https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...
For a K3S cluster? Would love to hear any experience. Thanks!
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terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner
Optimized and Maintenance-free Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud in one command!
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5 sourcessounds and looks great! There are many good projects out there to deploy Kubernetes https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne..., https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s. However, I like that yours is manageable via Dashboard and you install basic applications. Feels way smoother than Terraform templates or CLI tools.
Setting up kubernetes yourself with k3s and deploying a HA database with cnpg is so simple nowadays. It works great until some day you face an issue that you can't fix without diving deep into the details e.g. debugging your CNI or the implementations of specific operators to understand reconciliation errors. I faced countless of these issues such as:
- your Postgres CNPG failed during failover and can't recover on it's own
- Postgres WAL archiving suddenly doesn't work anymore after an update.
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networking on some nodes doesn't work anymore due to an incompatibility of kube-proxy and Cilium after an update
Unless it's your core business I'd limit myself to deploying applications on Kubernetes instead of managing Kubernetes itself. At least for use cases where reliability matters.
There are some reasonably priced managed Kubernetes offerings out there. For example syself (https://syself.com) built a managed Kubernetes on Hetzner. The prices are super reasonable. For 300 Euros per month you can enjoy Hetzner prices with an experience that beats AWS.
For anyone interested I am in the last stages of building a course operating around Kube-Hetzner (https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne... 3k github stars). Basically a lot of scripts that shows how this works and how to perform backups, restores etc... and a lot of exercises for common use cases and failure troubleshooting. Intentionally NOT abstracting away anything so you can see how this works. Without understanding you are going to get stuck.
Join the waiting list here: https://shipacademy.dev
In Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner accountThere is this project to deploy k3s to Hetzner via Terraform: https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...
It's not the smoothest thing I've ever used, but it's all self hosted and everything can be fixed with some Terraform or SSH.
Great to see some managed Kubernetes on Hetzner!
In Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner accountYeah so at the moment it kind of supports two options:
1. A single Hetzner VPS
2. An existing Kubernetes cluster.
I usually use #1 for staging / development apps, and then #2 for production apps. For #2, I manage the number of nodes on the Digital Ocean side, and kubernetes just magically reschedules my workload accordingly (also can turn on auto scaling).
I think the thing that you're getting at that is not supported is having Canine create a multi-node cluster directly within Hetzner.
There is a terraform to create a Kubernetes cluster from hetzner, but this isn't currently installed on Canine.
I'm not closed to trying it out, there were a few UI improvements I wanted to take a shot at first, but at the moment Canine assume's you have a cluster ready to go, or can help you walk through a K3s installation to a single VPS.
https://github.