Hey, I know some people use my tool hetzner-k3s in this community.

Latest release, v2.6.0, adds support for external nodes, which was a highly requested feature.

Control plane must remain in Hetzner Cloud, but you can now configure external nodes which can either be "generic", meaning from any provider, or Hetzner dedicated servers managed via Robot interface. In both cases, only SSH access is required, then hetzner-k3s will set up the nodes exactly like standard or autoscaled nodes.

We are already using this at work with dedicated servers for our Postgres cluster (with CloudNativePG). I love the integration.

The only limitation for now is that this only works if you configure the cluster to use the public network (with Wireguard encryption), because external nodes cannot connect to the Hetzner Cloud private networks.

However I will change this for Hetzner dedicated servers in a future release since dedicated servers can indeed be connected to a cloud private network via vSwitch.

I am really happy with this update and hope others will find it useful.

https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

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