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

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Post by 0x457 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

trolla wrote: post #17

The pricing is misleading. You say on the landing page that the free plan is €0 per month, but in reality you still have to pay for the control plane nodes. The cheapest control plane node is €3.29 per month; if you want high-availability - you need to double that. So in reality you would pay €20 per month for the standard plan and also extra for control plane nodes. Also, with this Terraform module I can setup a sim…

> if you want high-availability - you need to double that.

Triple. 1 and 2 nodes will give failure allowance of zero.

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

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Post by abound » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

MaKey wrote: post #12

What's the difference to a well established tool like kops ( https://github.com/kubernetes/kops ), which also supports Hetzner?

There's also Talos, which also also supports Hetzner [1] and is similarly streamlined. Not quite the same idea but very similar.

[1] https://www.talos.dev/v1.10/talos-guides/install/cloud-platf...

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

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Post by 0x457 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

barbazoo wrote: post #4

Love how focussed this is. I would have never guessed that there's an overlap between the circle of people wanting to run a prod workload on a K8s cluster and folks that need a GUI to set up and manage a K8s cluster would be that big but looks like I might be wrong.

> I would have never guessed that there's an overlap between the circle of people wanting to run a prod workload on a K8s cluster and folks that need a GUI to set up and manage a K8s cluster would be that big but looks like I might be wrong.

Count how many GKE ad EKS users are out there?

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

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Post by andix » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 6:43 PM UTC

trolla wrote: post #19

andix wrote: post #13

There 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!

This module is way better https://github.com/hcloud-k8s/terraform-hcloud-kubernetes/tr... I'm using it right now

Thanks for the feedback. I've stumbled upon it when it when the project was quite new, and it looked promising.

kube-hetzner seems to be a bit stuck, they have a big backlog for the next major release, but it might never happen.

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

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Post by figassis » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 6:46 PM UTC

I have yet to see a guide to automate k8s on Hetzner's beefy bare metal instances. True, you want cattle, but being able to include some bare metal instance with amazing CPUs and memory would be great, and I do just that. My clusters include both cloud and bare metal instances. In the past I had used Hetzner virtual switch to create a shared L2 network between cloud and bare metal nodes. Now I just use tailscale.

But the TF and other tools are using the API to add and kill nodes, if you could pass a class of nodes to those tools that they know can't create but are able to wipe and rebuild, this would be ideal.