2021-10-07 17:11:46 +00:00
# Kubernetes on Hetzner with Terraform
Provision a Kubernetes cluster on [Hetzner ](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud ) using Terraform and Kubespray
## Overview
The setup looks like following
```text
Kubernetes cluster
+--------------------------+
| +--------------+ |
| | +--------------+ |
| --> | | | |
| | | Master/etcd | |
| | | node(s) | |
| +-+ | |
| +--------------+ |
| ^ |
| | |
| v |
| +--------------+ |
| | +--------------+ |
| --> | | | |
| | | Worker | |
| | | node(s) | |
| +-+ | |
| +--------------+ |
+--------------------------+
```
The nodes uses a private network for node to node communication and a public interface for all external communication.
## Requirements
* Terraform 0.14.0 or newer
## Quickstart
NOTE: Assumes you are at the root of the kubespray repo.
For authentication in your cluster you can use the environment variables.
```bash
export HCLOUD_TOKEN=api-token
```
Copy the cluster configuration file.
```bash
CLUSTER=my-hetzner-cluster
cp -r inventory/sample inventory/$CLUSTER
cp contrib/terraform/hetzner/default.tfvars inventory/$CLUSTER/
cd inventory/$CLUSTER
```
Edit `default.tfvars` to match your requirement.
Run Terraform to create the infrastructure.
```bash
terraform init ../../contrib/terraform/hetzner
terraform apply --var-file default.tfvars ../../contrib/terraform/hetzner/
```
You should now have a inventory file named `inventory.ini` that you can use with kubespray.
You can use the inventory file with kubespray to set up a cluster.
It is a good idea to check that you have basic SSH connectivity to the nodes. You can do that by:
```bash
ansible -i inventory.ini -m ping all
```
You can setup Kubernetes with kubespray using the generated inventory:
```bash
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini ../../cluster.yml -b -v
```
## Cloud controller
For better support with the cloud you can install the [hcloud cloud controller ](https://github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-cloud-controller-manager ) and [CSI driver ](https://github.com/hetznercloud/csi-driver ).
Please read the instructions in both repos on how to install it.
## Teardown
You can teardown your infrastructure using the following Terraform command:
```bash
terraform destroy --var-file default.tfvars ../../contrib/terraform/hetzner
```
## Variables
* `prefix` : Prefix to add to all resources, if set to "" don't set any prefix
* `ssh_public_keys` : List of public SSH keys to install on all machines
* `zone` : The zone where to run the cluster
2022-04-11 17:26:06 +00:00
* `network_zone` : the network zone where the cluster is running
2021-10-07 17:11:46 +00:00
* `machines` : Machines to provision. Key of this object will be used as the name of the machine
* `node_type` : The role of this node *(master|worker)*
* `size` : Size of the VM
* `image` : The image to use for the VM
* `ssh_whitelist` : List of IP ranges (CIDR) that will be allowed to ssh to the nodes
* `api_server_whitelist` : List of IP ranges (CIDR) that will be allowed to connect to the API server
* `nodeport_whitelist` : List of IP ranges (CIDR) that will be allowed to connect to the kubernetes nodes on port 30000-32767 (kubernetes nodeports)
* `ingress_whitelist` : List of IP ranges (CIDR) that will be allowed to connect to kubernetes workers on port 80 and 443