Hetzner Bare-Metal Ops
$1.99OfficialUse when provisioning, hardening or cost-modelling Hetzner cloud and dedicated servers: hcloud, Robot API, private networks, floating IPs, backups.
What you get
- ✓Runnable Shell / Terraform included
- ✓7-point quality checklist
- ✓9 pitfalls to avoid
- ✓Installs into 6 tools
- Version
- v1 →
- Last updated
- today
- Length
- 13 min read
- Requires
- Works with any modern AI assistant
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What you'll need to set up
Some setup · 25-45 minProvision two independent Hetzner credential paths — a project-scoped Hetzner Cloud API token for the hcloud CLI/Cloud API, and a separate Robot webservice user/password for dedicated bare metal — plus an SSH key registered in both systems and, for backups, a Storage Box or Object Storage S3 key pair.
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When to use
Invoke for any Hetzner work: provisioning cloud servers with hcloud, ordering or reinstalling dedicated/auction bare metal through the Robot webservice, wiring private networks and vSwitches, primary and floating IPs, backups, hardening, or building a defensible cost comparison against AWS/GCP/Azure. Also invoke on "what would this cost on Hetzner?" and whenever an egress-heavy or CPU-bound workload is burning hyperscaler budget. Do not invoke for architectures built on managed platform services (Lambda, DynamoDB, BigQuery, Cognito, managed Kafka) — Hetzner sells compute, block and object storage, and network, not a managed-services catalogue. Say that plainly instead of in
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