Cloud Infrastructure

Infrastructure patterns for Kubernetes clusters. Implementation via hcloud CLI. All scripts are idempotent.

Core Components

Component Purpose hcloud Command

Compute VM instances for nodes hcloud server

Network Private connectivity hcloud network

Load Balancer Traffic distribution hcloud load-balancer

Firewall Network security hcloud firewall

DNS Name resolution hcloud zone

Storage Block storage hcloud volume

Server Type Selection

If a server type is unavailable in the preferred location, try other European locations:

Check availability across EU locations

for loc in fsn1 nbg1 hel1; do echo "=== $loc ===" && hcloud server-type list --selector location=$loc done

EU locations: fsn1 (Falkenstein), nbg1 (Nuremberg), hel1 (Helsinki)

Quick Start

Install hcloud CLI

curl -sL https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli/releases/latest/download/hcloud-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xz sudo mv hcloud /usr/local/bin/

Set token

export HCLOUD_TOKEN="your-token"

Verify

hcloud server list

hcloud Reference

Resource Reference

Servers hcloud-server.md

Networks hcloud-network.md

Load Balancers hcloud-load-balancer.md

Firewalls hcloud-firewall.md

Volumes hcloud-volume.md

Floating IPs hcloud-floating-ip.md

Primary IPs hcloud-primary-ip.md

SSH Keys hcloud-ssh-key.md

Images hcloud-image.md

Certificates hcloud-certificate.md

Placement Groups hcloud-placement-group.md

DNS Zones hcloud-zone.md

Storage Boxes hcloud-storage-box.md

Datacenters hcloud-datacenter.md

Context hcloud-context.md

Provisioning

See references/provisioning.md for step-by-step infrastructure setup.

References

• provisioning.md - Step-by-step setup

• terraform.md - Infrastructure as Code

• naming.md - Naming conventions

• cost-optimization.md - Cost strategies

• scripts.md - Automation scripts

• cert-manager-hetzner.md - TLS certificates