In January and February we started our ongoing journey to build a k3s Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner cloud in part 1 and part 2. We continued this in February with part 3 and 4 where we deployed the hcloud cloud controller manager, cert-manager and nginx ingress controller to get traffic into our cluster.

Today we continued where we left off last week. With our existing Terraform code we created a new cluster and then we built a few Ansible roles to deploy our k3s cluster. After an hour we reached the goal of the evening: kubectl get nodes showed us our three running nodes in Ready state. Next…

Last week during our weekly #everyonecancontribute call we started to build a k3s cluster on Hetzner Cloud. Based on my existing personal k3s cluster I gave an introduction to Terraform, Ansible and the related hcloud libraries, like the hcloud Terraform provider and the hcloud Ansible collection. In the next part we will actually start to…