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Couldn't agree more, I think Hetzner is probably Europe's best bet on a hyperscaler. One of the more telling indicators IMO is their growing market share outsid

Couldn't agree more, I think Hetzner is probably Europe's best bet on a hyperscaler. One of the more telling indicators IMO is their growing market share outside of the EU/DACH. To add on to the comments about Hetzner building their own custom hardware, they also custom built their own software stack. They rejected the hype that was OpenStack and worked diligently on their own hypervisor platform (that they are incredibly secretive about) and that appears to be paying off in spades for them. Most sovereign cloud plays end up being suffocated by the complexity, and incoherence, of the OpenStack ecosystem. It just becomes impossible to ship. For a fascinatingly different take on how to build a datacenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM * Edit: remove speculation about Kubernetes and Hetzner, that was based on hazy memory.

bigjoes 3y ago
Could you please elaborate how and what you know about managed Kubernetes on Hetzner? I am asking for this since a while and was told there is no way Hetzner would offer such a service. Certain Posts on Social Media have also never been answered with any kind of indication that they are actually working on it. Please provide some Details on this.
- dpeckett 3y ago
  They were in person recruiting at KubeCon EU this year and were advertising a good number of Kubernetes engineering roles. Definitely gave me the impression they were taking Kubernetes seriously but looking back a managed offering was just speculation on my part. So huge grain of salt, you are totally right. It could be internal platform work only.
dpeckett 3y ago
For anyone interested in Kubernetes on Hetzner, there's a really interesting CAPI provider being actively developed: https://github.com/syself/cluster-api-provider-hetzner https://github.com/syself/cluster-api-provider-hetzner

bigjoes 3y ago

Could you please elaborate how and what you know about managed Kubernetes on Hetzner? I am asking for this since a while and was told there is no way Hetzner would offer such a service. Certain Posts on Social Media have also never been answered with any kind of indication that they are actually working on it. Please provide some Details on this.

dpeckett 3y ago
They were in person recruiting at KubeCon EU this year and were advertising a good number of Kubernetes engineering roles. Definitely gave me the impression they were taking Kubernetes seriously but looking back a managed offering was just speculation on my part. So huge grain of salt, you are totally right. It could be internal platform work only.

dpeckett 3y ago

For anyone interested in Kubernetes on Hetzner, there's a really interesting CAPI provider being actively developed: https://github.com/syself/cluster-api-provider-hetzner https://github.com/syself/cluster-api-provider-hetzner