hetzner-k3s VS terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

This is with the new version not yet released of my tool https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s.

It uses k3s as Kubernetes flavor and Hetzner Cloud as provider. For this test I used extremely high concurrency so the tool hung twice of the process because I was hitting the Hetzner API too hard, so I had to interrupt it again and continue.

Excluding the time it paused/hubg due to the API, I calculated around 11 minutes total for the cluster creation. This includes:

- creating all the resources (cloud instances, firewall, load balancer for the Kubernetes API)

Try my project Hetzner-K3s, it’s by far the easiest and quickest way to create and manage clusters in Hetzner cloud. https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

Hi all, if you already use Kubernetes in any capacity or are you interested in it, would you mind spending a few minutes voting in a quick poll and hopefully answering a few questions? I would appreciate your help a ton because it would help me make the right decision and hopefully avoid a costly waste of time.

Everything is in a Github discussion at https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s/discussions/296. A huge thank you in advance if you can help with this!

The new release introduces more customisation options for cluster/service CIDRs, cluster DNS, updated manifests for CSI/CCM/autoscaler, and a couple of improvement for creating large clusters. Check it out at https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

If you are already familiar with this tool, I'd love to know how it's worked for you so far. :)

https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud the easiest way

There’s this cool GitHub project that helps automate a lot of the process for K3s on Hetzner: https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

If you are willing to leave AWS in order to save a lot of money, you have an option in https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

Hetzner starting with https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne..., plus registry using DigitalOcean.

However in the end my goto solution is k3s on hetzner cloud since it's got support for load balancers, ingress controllers with public IPS, persistent storage etc. It's cheaper than all the other cloud providers, although you need to run some code it doesn't have a 1 click solution. so I sold my hardware and used this https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner. I run it when I need a kube cluster and kill it by deleting the project.

You can look at this: https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

This whole setup is around 70euros per month, and I can enjoy usenet and torrent downloads of Linux ISOs to constantly peak at 1Gbps speed. All of this is HA with Kubernetes using this.

OpenSUSE MicroOS, we use it here. Another good option would be Fedora CoreOS

It's not even close to major public cloud providers, but this is my setup:

* https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne... (Terraform, Kubernetes bootstrap)

* Flux for CI

* nginx-ingress + Hetzner Loadbalancer (thanks to https://github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-cloud-controller-mana...)

* Hetzner storage volumes (thanks to https://github.com/hetznercloud/csi-driver)

Kube-Hetzner supports Hetzner Cloud loadbalancers and volumes out of the box, though it also supports other components.

With Hetzner VMs and k3s one could run a k8 cluster with amazingly low cost. There are even ready-made repos that make it lighting fast to deploy and easy to maintain...

https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...

Even Hetzner maintains a few repos for that:

https://github.com/orgs/hetznercloud/repositories?q=kubernet...