Tag: hetzner
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16. & 17. #everyonecancontribute Cafe: Building a K3s Cluster on Hetzner Cloud – Part 3 and 4
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.
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Joining the Hetzner Cloud Team
A week ago I shared on Twitter that I quit my job at SysEleven after half a decade. Those years have been an incredible ride from “part time in support” to “senior kubernetes architect” while learning a ton of things, not only as an engineer but also as a human. If our paths crossed during…
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15. #everyonecancontribute Cafe: Building a K3s Cluster on Hetzner Cloud – Part 2
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…
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14. #everyonecancontribute Cafe: Building a K3s Cluster on Hetzner Cloud – Part 1
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…
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13. #everyonecancontribute Cafe: Autoscaling Gitlab Runners on Hetzner Cloud
A while ago Michael invited me to join the weekly #everyonecancontribute coffee chats. It took me a while until I actually managed to join, but yesterday I attended the call for the second time and was promptly surprised when the agenda turned out to be a hands-on demo of an earlier blogpost of mine: Autoscaling…
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Autoscaling GitLab Runners on Hetzner Cloud
I use a private instance of GitLab a lot and utilize the GitLab CI for most of my private projects. To speed up the CI jobs I wanted to have more GitLab runners available on demand. From our GitLab instance at work I already knew that GitLab supports autoscaling runners with docker-machine. At work we…