Syself empowers you to run production-ready Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner's cloud and dedicated root servers. Start for free and create Hetzner Kubernetes clusters in minutes, without complexity, unpredictable costs, or compromises on performance.
Hetzner is a leading European cloud and data center provider, known for delivering high-performance, cost-effective cloud computing and dedicated bare metal servers. With a strong focus on reliability, flexibility, and sustainability. Hetzner offers a robust foundation for running your Kubernetes workloads at the lowest cost in the market: up to 80% lower than AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Hetzner's data centers are strategically located across Europe, North America, and Singapore, ensuring worldwide scalability and reliability.
Hetzner is fully compliant with GDPR regulations, ensuring that all data processing activities meet the requirements set by the European Union.
Select from a wide range of server types, including dedicated bare metal servers, virtual machines, and high-performance GPUs tailored to your needs.
Thanks to our robust global infrastructure, your services run smoothly and stay online—day or night. We minimize downtime and maximize performance for users everywhere.
Hetzner stands out as a cost-effective alternative to giants like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, making it a top choice for cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
Hetzner's European data centers emphasize data sovereignty and security, guaranteeing adherence to local regulations.
Syself Autopilot is a fully automated Kubernetes management platform that allows you to launch production-ready Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner in minutes, and start deploying your applications on Hetzner without the hassle of complex setup.
Our approach ensures 100% reproducible clusters with an immutable foundation and self-healing capabilities. With declarative cluster creation, it's fully compatible with GitOps workflows.
Our solution handles the entire cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades an automated failover. Focus on innovation while we handle the complexities of cluster operations.
Kubernetes control planes and worker nodes, as well as add-ons are pre-configured with sane defaults and extra features, such as node hardening, firewall, kernel patches, encryption and performance improvements.
Seamlessly integrated with GitOps workflows, enhancing your Kubernetes management by enabling automated deployments, version control, and improved collaboration.
Syself Autopilot features OIDC-powered authentication and supports federated access, making it easy to securely manage permissions for distributed teams.
Our platform utilizes a declarative approach, treating clusters as Kubernetes resources. This allows seamless management, using familiar configurations and tools.
Automatically detects and recovers from failures, ensuring your applications are resilient and have high availability. Avoid downtime and surprises in production.
Syself brings a fully managed Kubernetes experience to Hetzner, bridging the gap between its powerful cloud infrastructure and the convenience offered by other cloud providers.
Unlike Terraform or Ansible-based solutions that focus on cluster provisioning, we also have automation for day 2 operations such as scaling, upgrades and monitoring - while still being compatible with infrastructure as code.
Leave the complexity of database administration to us. We'll take care of the setup, backup, and updates so you can focus on building great applications.
We won a tender from the German government to build a Kubernetes as a service solution
Our platform efficiently manages and orchestrates +10,000 servers.
Built with reliability in mind, featuring
4X more testing code than production code.
Every day, over 100 million users interact with infrastructure managed by Syself.
Developed and refined for 4+ years to meet enterprise-grade standards.
Enterprises and government rely on our software to manage their critical infrastructure.
in the world in stars and usage
Our Open source project, Cluster API Provider Hetzner, is the leading open-source solution for managing Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner. It stands out as the most popular Cluster API Provider and the most starred on GitHub managing ten of thousands of servers in production at Hetzner over the last 4 years.
More of our open source work:
Developed the dedicated server integration for the Hetzner Cloud Controller Manager
Developed and donated Helm charts to the community, such as the csi-hcloud chart
Contribute actively to cluster-api and related projects.
Syself combines the low cost and control of DIY Kubernetes with the ease and
reliability of automated operations, optimized performance, and cost efficiency
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With decades of experience and a proven track record of successful projects, we are leading experts in cloud-native and Kubernetes-native software. If there’s something we can’t cover, we’ll connect you with specialists from our trusted network of partners and agencies to ensure your needs are met.
When it comes to pricing, Hetzner stands out with the most affordable rates of all cloud providers, making it an ideal choice for businesses that want to maximize their ROI. Whether you’re running small-scale applications or large Kubernetes clusters, Hetzner’s pricing structure ensures you get high performance without breaking the bank.
Curious about the costs for your cloud setup with Hetzner? Use our intuitive pricing calculator to get an estimate tailored to your needs!
Hetzner offers diverse cloud computing options for scalability and additional flexibility, and dedicated servers for full hardware control, virtualization-free operations, powerful CPUs and NVMe SSDs.
As a provider committed to green energy, Hetzner operates data centers powered 100% by renewable energy sources, making it an environmentally friendly solution for modern cloud operations.
For high-performance workloads, Hetzner offers GPU-enabled bare metal servers that are ideal for AI, machine learning, and data analytics applications, giving you the power to handle compute-intensive tasks.
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Note: Syself leverages Hetzner’s reliable hardware, but it's important to note that we are a distinct entity. Our Enterprise-Grade Managed Kubernetes platform provides unique value beyond Hetzner’s infrastructure.
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Managing your own Kubernetes infrastructure is hard. You need to make sure that everything is secure, you need to get up at night for fire-fighting, and constantly maintain and update all components. You also need to pay the experts to do all of this. It's like building your own car instead of buying it - who would seriously consider that? With Syself, you get a professional and cost-efficient Kubernetes infrastructure that gives you the main benefit of a DIY solution: you remain in full control of your infrastructure. All of this at a fraction of the cost of an in-house Kubernetes team. You also have a globally distributed team of experts ready to assist you, and provide custom services tailored to your needs.
Kubernetes is the gold standard — but you probably think that it will be too hard to manage. This is a valid concern that we can take away from you. With Syself, everyone can manage an Enterprise-grade Kubernetes infrastructure. If you want support for the migration, we and our partner companies will be there to help.
Hetzner's strategy is to make their products as cost-efficient as possible. They do that by cutting down on services that are highly relevant for many companies, such as close and personal support, managed databases and identity management. However, Syself bridges the gap and builds a professional and enterprise-grade infrastructure on top of Hetzner, delivering these additional services. We know how to bring the best out of Hetzner's products, so that you get a cost-efficient AND reliable infrastructure.
Syself doesn't charge anything for network traffic. On Hetzner, each virtual machine comes with 20 TB of free network traffic (ingress and egress). Hetzner charges an additional € 0.50 per month for public IPv4 addresses. Virtual machines come with public IPv6 address free or charge.
Hetzner will launch a Managed Kubernetes product on their own at some point. Our platform on Hetzner has a completely different approach. On Syself Autopilot, the entire lifecycle of clusters is automated. We optimize Kubernetes and operating system configuration, do security hardening and audits, and heavily test upgrades. You can also manage clusters declaratively, in a Kubernetes-native way. Hetzner will not deliver a similar enterprise-grade product, but rather focus on giving quick access to provisioning clusters, without covering day-2 operations, self-healing, and <a href="/features/dedicated-solutions">support</a>. If anything goes wrong, no one will be there to help you. Furthermore, there is no forecast for when Hetzner's Kubernetes solution will be launched. With Syself, you can start now.
Rancher and k3s are Kubernetes distributions, with a focus on cluster provisioning. They simplify day-1 operations by making the experience of deploying Kubernetes clusters more straightforward, and include patches to make the initial setup easier. You still need to provide the machines to install Rancher or k3s on. Syself Autopilot, on the other hand, covers not only the Kubernetes layer, but also virtual machine and bare metal servers provisioning. Furthermore, operations such as scaling, updates, encryption, security hardening and storage setup are also managed by Syself Autopilot. If you want production-ready clusters, with sane default configurations and self-healing capabilities, while retaining full ownership of your infrastructure, Syself is a better option than DYI or "homebrew" Kubernetes solutions for the long term.
Terraform is a infrastructure as code tool that interfaces with multiple providers. When talking about Kubernetes on Hetzner, Terraform allows you to automate the creation of resources such as Load Balancers and Virtual Machines on Hetzner Cloud, as well as the installation of Kubernetes in these VMs. While it is possible to provision dedicated servers (Hetzner Robot) with Terraform, there is no straightforward way to install Kubernetes on them. Different from Terraform, which only handles the initial setup, Syself Autopilot continuously monitors the state of your infrastructure, and ensures it's always matching the desired state. Our platform also handles updates, scaling and self-healing, in addition to providing production-ready configurations by default. This makes Syself Autopilot a better long-term solution for companies looking for building reliable, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure on Hetzner.
Yes, you can. Most of our customers use them to save money and get an optimal cost-benefit ratio.
Setting up a Kubernetes cluster involves a lot of different steps. Managed Kubernetes is a solution offered by some companies to simplify the deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters. Instead of handling the complex setup and maintenance of control planes, load balancing, and node management yourself, the provider manages these tasks. Syself Autopilot also automates upgrades, bare metal integration, database, encryption at rest, and networking aspects such as subnet, hostname, firewall and network interface configuration.
With declarative management, you specify all the configuration of your clusters in a configuration file, written in YAML, which is a human-readable configuration format. Instead of manually configuring resources, you declare how your clusters should look like, and our platform automatically ensures that you get exactly what you want. This configuration file can then be used for infrastructure as code, where tools like Terraform can manage resources in a repeatable and predictable manner. Another option is to export the configuration file to a Git repository, and use tools like Argo CD to sync them with our platform automatically. This also enables you to audit, review and rollback every piece of your infrastructure.
On Syself Autopilot, dedicated servers are first-class citizens. You can mix them with virtual machines in the same cluster, and use the same declarative management approach to manage dedicated servers — our platform will ensure that they are always matching the desired state. On a technical level, our software uses the Hetzner Robot API key for booting the machine and installing the operating system, after which they are set up with the same configuration as VMs, and join the cluster as a node. To ensure we only manage the servers you want, you add them to an inventory, which contains metadata to identify the server.
