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The easiest and fastest way to create production-ready Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner Cloud

22 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 9 stories, 13 comments · first 2021-08-07 · latest 2026-02-20

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  1. are you aware of https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s ? I am using it and I can wholeheartedly recommend.
    comment by willy__ · 2026-02-20 · in I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
  2. https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
    comment by mlnj · 2025-10-18 · in Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
  3. 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!
    comment by slig · 2025-10-17 · in Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
  4. I'd say rent a hetzner vps and use hetzner-k3s https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s Then you are off to races. you can add more nodes etc later to give it a try.
    comment by tehlike · 2025-10-03 · in Litestream v0.5.0
  5. …in Finnland, USA and GER RDS: Self-hosted MySQL from Bitnami EFS: https://github.com/rook/rook EKS: https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s and 20+ more moving targets of infra software stack and support systems The result was hiring more…
    comment by randomtoast · 2025-08-31 · in Use One Big Server (2022)
  6. …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…
    comment by 2start · 2025-08-18 · in Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
  7. Does anyone know how this compares to using https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s ?
    comment by worldsayshi · 2025-08-15 · in Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
  8. Probably the easiest out there is https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s . There are many options, depending on how low level you want to go. Hetzner terraform project is probably the most complex and complete, but it takes time to…
    comment by camil · 2025-08-15 · in Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
  9. I just went thru this exercise of setting up k3s on hetzner by using this: https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s/ does this help?
    comment by diamondfist25 · 2025-06-17 · in Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
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    Hetzner-k3s v2.2.0 has been released
    story by SkyLinx · 2025-01-28 · 0 comments
  11. i was actually playing with hetzner and k3s over the weekend and found this https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s to be super useful.
    comment by fernandotakai · 2024-11-27 · in I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
  12. Also highly recommended https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
    comment by davidgl · 2024-10-21 · in AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
  13. ▲ 1
    New record: I created a 300-node Kubernetes cluster in 11 minutes
    story by SkyLinx · 2024-04-24 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 2
    (For Kubernetes users mainly) I need your help/advice with a business idea
    story by SkyLinx · 2023-11-28 · 0 comments
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    V1.1.5 of Hetzner-k3s (my Kubernetes installer for Hetzner Cloud) is out
    story by SkyLinx · 2023-10-21 · 0 comments
  16. …clusters in Hetzner Cloud using the lightweight Kubernetes distribution k3s from Rancher. https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud the easiest way https://vitobotta.com/2023/01/07/kubernetes-on-hetzner-cloud...
    comment by mariuz · 2023-10-12 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
  17. ▲ 3
    Hetzner-k3s v1.1.1 – the easiest way to create k3s clusters in Hetzner Cloud
    story by SkyLinx · 2023-04-15 · 1 comment
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    Show HN: Hetzner-k3s v1.0.1 is out with autoscaling support
    story by SkyLinx · 2023-01-02 · 0 comments
  19. ▲ 127
    I rewrote in Crystal my tool to quickly create Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner
    story by SkyLinx · 2022-12-30 · 47 comments
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    Hetzner-k3s v0.5.4 is out with support for multi zonal Kubernetes clusters
    story by SkyLinx · 2022-02-21 · 2 comments
  21. I deploy Kubernetes to Hetzner with https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
    comment by killingtime74 · 2022-01-25 · in Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner
  22. ▲ 2
    Show HN: Create HA k3s clusters in Hetzner Cloud in a couple of minutes or less
    story by SkyLinx · 2021-08-07 · 3 comments