Comment by Hetzner_OL

3 years ago

Thanks so much for the detailed recommendation! We're thrilled that you're with us, that you appreciate our low prices, that you find our Cloud Console pleasant to use, and that our rescale feature helps you grow so easily! --Katie

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dtx1  3 years ago

Please do a managed Kubernetes next. I couldn't convince any of our customers to switch to Hetzner because they'd need to do "everything themselves". A managed Kubernetes instance would instantly make Hetzner an alternative for at least 75% of our customers. And honestly it's quite a cheap way to earn a bonus on your server instances.

Edit: And if you do manged Kubernetes and managed Kafka Instances the number would go up to like 95%. Oh and those Videos with der8auer? Really awesome to see, do Linus Tech Tipps or Level1Techs next!

  • _cenw  3 years ago

    Kubeone on Hetzner is honestly one of the smoothest non-managed experiences I've ever had with Kubernetes - better than some managed ones. Includes all of the things Hetzner already provides for Kubernetes (so I'm sure they're working on their own) - internal networking support, load balancers, volumes. And you scale worker nodes with a CRD too.

    https://github.com/kubermatic/kubeone/tree/main/examples/ter...

  • simplotek  3 years ago

    > Please do a managed Kubernetes next.

    If we're taking requests, I would love a Fargate-like service. It would be absolutely fantastic if Hetzner provided a service where users uploaded a Docker image, and Hetzner took care of handling the networking bits and running it, and gather metrics.

    • hardwaresofton  3 years ago

      Something like this is on my roadmap, would you mind telling me a bit about the metrics and the scale you'd expect? Would you expect always on or more of an ephemeral container?

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    • sofixa  3 years ago

      They could do it like GCP or Scaleway - provide a managed Kubernetes service, and provide managed Knative on top for the Container as a Service service.

  • rmoriz  3 years ago

    Managed k8s also requires stateful services like storage, database and ingress/LB which I recommended Hetzner to build like 8 years ago (community).

    Proof: https://forum.hetzner.com/index.php?thread/21421-docker-cont...

    • hakman  3 years ago

      There are some other pieces missing. The cluster-autoscaler implementation is quite basic. It doesn't have a way to managing multiple clusters inside the same project and no way to add custom tags. That makes it harder to track resources. The permissions/security is quite simple. Read/write tokens with full permissions on the project is very wide. Adding S3 like service without more security would be interesting. These are the most important ones, but I remember there were a few more nice to have feature (like server groups for scaling up an down and the ability to retrieve the userdata, image and ssh keys for a running server.

    • dtx1  3 years ago

      Hetzner S3 Storage would be great. I know Hetzner is slow moving when it comes to Software but it's so obvious that they would have explosive growth if they did that and most of it is available as FOSS Software already

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  • hakman  3 years ago

    For Kubernetes, maybe give kOps a try. It's quite close to managed. The Hetzner integration is quite good (I spent about 6 months getting it ready for my company). The community support is great also. It still needs autoscaling added though.

  • whage  3 years ago

    Never heard of Level1Tech, just looked them up. Man... These people are so likeable! Great content!