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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 topspin »

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.

I'm using AWS for small k8s clusters. I stay away from most of the "managed" AWS products except S3 and ECR. My k8s stack is packer + tofu + k3s + zfs: It's easy, concise, self managed, and costs are easy to predict.

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

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Post by mdaniel »

rumblefrog wrote: post #55

I wonder how long before Hetzner adds something like managed Kubernetes to their native product line. They already have S3 compatible object storages, load balancers and more.

In case others were curious https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/supported-ac...

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/load-balancers/overview#:~:te...

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

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Post by mdaniel »

sneak wrote: post #83

off topic: k8s aside, what are people using to receive webhooks from github/gitea/gitlab and do builds/deploys? is the generally accepted way to put deploy credentials into CI secrets and do it that way?

I'm sure for 10 people you'll get 15 answers, but for my money OIDC is the way, the truth, and the light. GitHub and GitLab offer it, one can have federated auth from within a k8s Pod to anything that trusts OIDC, and realistically one can do it from anything that has intrinsic identity. That's also how AWS Identity Anywhere works, just with more X509

I really loved this talk about using Let's Encrypt for IAM Anywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hXUcBMf1Q

I have personally also set up EKS Anywhere https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere#readme> with OIDC, so one need not have a "smart cloud" to get that done, but it places the burden upon security the cluster's identity upon the operator https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2302594

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

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Post by camil »

lagniappe wrote: post #86
camil wrote: post #85

What a great fortune to reach top of HN and get product feedback, then get rate limited by GitHub ( that was an easy fix though...) Then Hetzner gets a partial outage, failing to create new instances, causing most of the new cluster to get stuck in "creating" mode. Thanks everyone for the interest, I was not expecting this from a side project and I'll do my best to improve the platform in the future and address all f…

It happens to almost all of us :) No worries, you did great! Thanks for sharing your project with us

Thank you for your kind words! I really appreciate it.

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

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Post by camil »

bflesch wrote: post #70
camil wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello there, as I mentioned in the post, I build this as a side project by my self and I'm running it as a freelancer registered in Spain, you can check my VAT number ESY1848661G. I was planning to collect some feedback and honestly didn't expect such interest in the project. I will make the necessary adjustments to the privacy policy and terms of service. When I started this, I had in mind to convert it into a compa…

Hey, thanks for your immediate reply. Congrats for starting your own business. If you're Spanish-based maybe something like "aviso legal" at [1] or "legal notice" (imprint) at hetzner [2] is needed so people can validate that you/your company actually exist. I'm not familiar with Spanish S.L. (Sociedad Limitada) but it seems to be a private, share-based legal entity with minimum 3000 EUR share capital and at least on…

Thanks! I made a quick update to the Privacy Policy and Terms of use. I will review all legal documents in depth in the following days. Meanwhile, you can check my legal entity informations here: https://www.einforma.com/rapp/ficha/empresas?id=dWSG1MwtU312...

Also here: https://ceo.oepm.es/detalleExpediente?numExp=N0486066

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

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Post by camil »

julienmarie wrote: post #89

What is the difference with Syself.com ? I was looking into them recently ?

I didn't have the chance to test their platform yet, but I expect it to be a mature product. My intentions with this platform are to make it more accessible to developers and small companies that do not have Kubernetes knowledge yet or want to spin clusters fast for development, testing etc.

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

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Post by camil »

chatmasta wrote: post #52
camil wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was designed for Hetzner, which I still believe has the best offer on the market comparing price, performance and stability. On top of that, the platform offers some ready to deploy add-ons that simplify the configuration after the initial cluster provisioning.

What Hetzner-specific functionality did you need to design that you wouldn’t need in a “deploy to arbitrary set of VMs” scenario?

Hetzner was an easy choice because you can attach persistent volumes, expose services using their load balancers, servers are fast and easy to provision and they probably have the best pricing. I run multiple clusters in Hetzner for over 4 years now and only had minor issues. Sometimes they do not have enough instances on a specific region, sometimes provisioning new instances can be delayed or they send emails to reboot the instances due to patches to their hypervisors. But most of the times runs stable. Few of my clusters have 100% uptime for more than 2 years.

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

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Post by moondev »

physix wrote: post #79
VoidWhisperer wrote: post #75

Earlier 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.

Cluster-api project is what you want. It's the holy grail of cluster lifecycle.

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

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Post by lclc »

camil wrote: post #66
bflesch wrote: post #60

I cant seem to figure out where this company is located and if it is a scam or not. Website has no imprint, no contact address. There is one email address in the privacy statement but it is "redacted by cloudflare". Also in privacy statement it says "Edka Digital S.L." but no idea which country it is registered it. For me it does not pass the smell test. No physical address, no idea who is running it, no idea if comp…

Hello there, as I mentioned in the post, I build this as a side project by my self and I'm running it as a freelancer registered in Spain, you can check my VAT number ESY1848661G. I was planning to collect some feedback and honestly didn't expect such interest in the project. I will make the necessary adjustments to the privacy policy and terms of service. When I started this, I had in mind to convert it into a compa…

Personally, I trust companies more that put a name and face on their website too. So I can check if the person behind it is real (mostly using LinkedIn).
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