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Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by kazanz »

2start wrote: post #130

sounds 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…

I'm going to second the Syself (https://syself.com) recommendation.

We're running our entire PaaS platform (Sherpa.sh) on top of Hetzner with Syself. We are 5x more affordable than Vercel and a big piece of that is because Syself allows us to operate autoscaling k8s clusters without an army of ops engineers.

We tried hetzner-k3s, and many other solutions. But ran into many of these same problems. Syself on the other hand, has solved all the sticky hardware and networking challenges at scale with their own customer operators. Plus they're support is super responsive and helpful.

The one downside, is they don't have a dashboard yet, so you need to be comfortable in the CLI. But I'm sure they are working on it.

I don't think I would manage kubernetes any other way at this point.

Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by softwaredam »

To me this seems more than a side project. Really well done.

Nowadays, Hetzner has many Kubernetes providers. One that I really like is Syself.com. They provide production-ready Kubernetes including self-healing, bare-metal support, OIDC integration and many more.

As a cloud and migration expert, I have evaluated them and they turned out to perform very well.

Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by softwaredam »

softwaredam wrote: post #132

To me this seems more than a side project. Really well done. Nowadays, Hetzner has many Kubernetes providers. One that I really like is Syself.com. They provide production-ready Kubernetes including self-healing, bare-metal support, OIDC integration and many more. As a cloud and migration expert, I have evaluated them and they turned out to perform very well.

https://syself.com/ is what I am talking about.

Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by derfabianpeter »

physix wrote: post #69

This is a great idea. I really like it! We considered reaching out in May, but held back because we want to run on bare metal. Any chance to get this provisioned on bare metal at Hetzner? We have K8S running on bare metal there. It's a slog to get it all working, but for our use case, having a dedicated 10G LAN between nodes (and a bare metal Cassandra cluster in the same rack) makes a big difference in performance.…

You might want to check https://loopback.cloud if you’re interested in managed k8s with customized infra on Hetzner. They‘re a German company specialized in that.

Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by derfabianpeter »

mfrye0 wrote: post #50

This is incredibly timely. I've been an AWS customer for 10+ years and have been having a tough time with them lately. Looking at potentially moving off and considering options. My theory is that with terraform and a container based infra, that it should be pretty easier with Claude Code to migrate wherever.

You might also want to review https://loopback.cloud for that purpose

Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account

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Post by PaleHazy »

For those who like k3s and are familiar with it, this looks like a great natural initiative. I never really bought into k3s myself for whatever reason, even on RPis I don’t feel too constrained on resources.

A similar approach I’ve been using is using Syself (running it for about half a year now with no issues). They contributed the Cluster API provider for Hetzner, which is obviously Chad. Of course, I wish CAPI were a bit less involved, but that’s exactly where external help makes sense. I am totally fully sold on CAPI, but then again always need your base cluster.

I still want to set up CAPI on my own, but still preferred having “someone else” host the control plane. With CAPI, though, you have the flexibility to do either.

Also Talos and Omni are cool and pretty chill on Hetzner. Fantastic tools. Still though I just like the "raw-ish" feel to kubeadm and CAPI feels the most "native" solution.

In terms of addons, I have my very curated yaml manifestos. And ArgoCD Application sets. That part is hard for me to replace, but that should defenitely be married with a UI.

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