I rewrote in Crystal my tool to quickly create Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner

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Hi all, I just released a new version of https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s that is a complete rewrite in Crystal that is faster, better overall and allows me to offer simple standalone executables. The previous version was written in Ruby, so users had to either set up a Ruby environment, or use a Docker image instead. This is no longer necessary. This is my first project in Crystal and I love it already! It's syntax is lovely - similar to Ruby's - and it's FAST! I would appreciate any feedback anyone might have - if you are a Kubernetes user as well as a Hetzner customer, please give it a try and let me know what you think, if you encounter any issues etc. During my tests I was able to create a cluster with highly available control plane (3 masters behind a load balancer) and 5 nodes in multiple regions in just *3 minutes*. This is the total time to create the resources (servers, firewall, load balancer, private network), deploy Kubernetes to

Published 30 Dec 2022
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