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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
#72This certainly looks like a pleasingly straight-forward way to spin up k8s.
I do notice that this deploys onto their cloud offering, which we've (https://lithus.eu) found to be a little shaky in a few places. We deploy clients onto their bare metal line-up which we find to be pretty rock solid. The worst that typically happens is the scheduled restart of an upstream router, which we mitigate via multi-AZ deployments.
That being said, there is a base cluster size under which a custom bare-metal deployment isn't really viable in terms of economics/effort. So I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#73A bit off topic, but you might want to rethink the name. It is very close to EDEKA, the largest German supermarket chain. They have a very large IT division (https://it.edeka) and judging from the name of your project I was expecting it to be one of their projects.
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#74This 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.…
We're setting up a data-heavy client at the moment who has a similar need. We're working with Hetzner's custom solutions team to provision a multi-AZ setup, with 25G networking and 100G AZ interconnects. Link in bio if you want to chat, email is adam@...
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#75This 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.…
Are you asking if it can provision bare metal servers with hetzner in a similar way to what it is doing with cloud servers, or if it can manage clusters on your hetzner bare metal servers (in the case of the second, a tool like Rancher might be better)
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#76A bit off topic, but you might want to rethink the name. It is very close to EDEKA, the largest German supermarket chain. They have a very large IT division ( https://it.edeka ) and judging from the name of your project I was expecting it to be one of their projects.
Well, I had this since 2011, and in 2018 a new disease was labeled EDKA ( that is the first result you get when you google for edka). I became aware about the german supermarket few years after also. I could consider it at some point, but is very hard to find something available these days...
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#77This 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.
This is exactly what we [1] do! We migrate clients out of AWS and into Hetzner bare-metal k8s clusters, and then we also become the client's DevOps team (typically for a lot less than Amazon charges)
I will say that there is a fair bit of lifting required to spin up a k8s cluster on bare metal, particularly for things such as monitoring and distributed block storage (we use OpenEBS). I would ballpark it as a small number of months.
It is likely easier on their cloud offering, but we've found that to be a little less reliable than we would hope.
Happy to chat more: adam@...
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#78Has anybody found a good way to use encrypted disks with Hetzner yet?
To answer from a Kubernetes perspective: Both OpenEBS Mayastor and LocalZFS now support disk encryption.
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#79This 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.…
Are you asking if it can provision bare metal servers with hetzner in a similar way to what it is doing with cloud servers, or if it can manage clusters on your hetzner bare metal servers (in the case of the second, a tool like Rancher might be better)
I was thinking more of the former, whereby I "bring my own servers".
I haven't really thought it through yet, whether that even makes sense.
Re: Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you asking if it can provision bare metal servers with hetzner in a similar way to what it is doing with cloud servers, or if it can manage clusters on your hetzner bare metal servers (in the case of the second, a tool like Rancher might be better)
I was thinking more of the former, whereby I "bring my own servers". I haven't really thought it through yet, whether that even makes sense.
That might be a bit challenging unless they sort out an integration directly with hetzner as I don't think their API supports anything related to bare metal provisioning, just cloud and 'storage boxes'