Kubernetes on Hetzner in 2026: Every Way to Run It, Compared
Hetzner has no managed Kubernetes. Eight ways to run it in 2026, from kube-hetzner and Talos to Syself, Cloudfleet and Ankra, and what each leaves to you.
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Product walkthroughs, practical engineering and ideas about building an operating platform for people and agents.
Hetzner has no managed Kubernetes. Eight ways to run it in 2026, from kube-hetzner and Talos to Syself, Cloudfleet and Ankra, and what each leaves to you.
Northflank, Qovery, Porter, Ankra, Coolify, Dokploy, Kamal, Render and Railway compared, with where each runs your apps and who it fits in 2026.
Eight Rancher alternatives for 2026 compared side by side, from OpenShift and Spectro Cloud to Portainer and Omni, with when each one fits.
Moving a Next.js app on Vercel with a Supabase backend onto a Kubernetes cluster you own. What maps across, the database move, and the hard parts.
Every Ankra Playground size costs less than the Hetzner server of the same shape, with Kubernetes, TLS and storage included. The math, and the fine print.
We turned a production OpenSearch stack into a reusable Ankra stack profile. The parameterisation exercise turned into an audit, and it found credentials that went nowhere, a security config that was never applied, and a retention policy pointed at every index in the cluster.
What 10 heavy Claude developers cost, why one 8xB200 server cannot run Kimi K3, and the UpCloud cluster that could.
A compose stack on a VM, a Kubernetes cluster on Ankra, and the databases in between. ankra migrate up plans, converts, deploys, dumps and restores, then does it once more for the cutover. Here is what one command has to promise, and how the CLI keeps that promise.
We gave an AI agent one paragraph: build an animated deep sea facts page, wire it to our private GPU, ship it. It came back with a live URL. Here is how.
From an empty UpCloud account to a Kubernetes cluster running a team of AI agents, each with its own personality, chat channel and keys, all building through GitOps.
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