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