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First and foremost, you need to have a Hetzner Cloud account. You can sign up for free [here](https://hetzner.com/cloud/).
Then you'll need to have [terraform](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli) and [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/) cli installed. The easiest way is to use the [gofish](https://gofi.sh/#install) package manager to install them.
Then you'll need to have [terraform](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli), [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/) cli, and [hcloud](<https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli>) the Hetzner cli. The easiest way is to use the [gofish](https://gofi.sh/#install) package manager to install them.
```sh
gofish install terraform
gofish install kubectl
gofish install hcloud
```
_The Hetzner cli `hcloud` is also useful to have, mainly for debugging without having to use the Hetzner website. See how to install it [here](https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli)._
### 💡 [Do not skip] Creating the terraform.tfvars file
1. Create a project in your [Hetzner Cloud Console](https://console.hetzner.cloud/), and go to **Security > API Tokens** of that project to grab the API key. Take note of the key! ✅
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To scale the number of nodes up or down, just make sure to properly `kubectl drain` the nodes in question first if scaling down. Then just edit these variables in `terraform.tfvars` and re-apply terraform with `terraform apply -auto-approve`.
### Useful Commands
- List your nodes IPs, with either of those:
```sh
terraform outputs
hcloud server list
```
- See the Hetzner network config:
```sh
hcloud network describe k3s
```
- Log into one of your nodes (replace the location of your private key if needed):
```sh
ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
```
## High Availability
By default, we have 3 control planes and 2 agents configured, with automatic upgrades and reboots of the nodes.
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## Debugging
First and foremost, it depends, but it's always good to have a quick look into Hetzner quickly without having to login to the UI. There where the `hcloud` cli comes in.
- Activate it with `hcloud context create kube-hetzner`, it will prompt for your Hetzner API token, paste that and hit `enter`.
- To check the nodes, if they are running, for instance, use `hcloud server list`.
- To check the network use `hcloud network describe k3s`.
- To see a look at the LB, use `hcloud loadbalancer describe traefik`.
Then for the rest, you'll often need to login to your cluster via ssh, to do that, use:
```sh
ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
```
Then, for control-plane nodes, use `journalctl -u k3s` to see the k3s logs, and for agents, use `journalctl -u k3s-agents` instead.
Last but not least, to see when the last reboot took place, you can use both `last reboot`and `uptime`.
## Takedown
If you want to takedown the cluster, you can proceed as follows: