DevPod Provider Hetzner

DevPod on Hetzner

• Project status
• Usage
• Development
  • Required environment variables
  • Testing independently of DevPod
  • Testing in the DevPod ecosystem
• Contributing
  • Open in a container
  • Commit style

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DevPod on Hetzner. This is based upon the DigitalOcean provider.

Project status

This project is feature-complete and in maintenance-mode.

This project is very much alive and will receive regular dependency updates. I do not intend to add any new features unless requested by a large number of people or to fix changes made by DevPod or Hetzner.

Usage

To use this provider in your DevPod setup, you will need to do the following steps:

1. See the DevPod documentation for how to add a provider
2. Use the reference mrsimonemms/devpod-provider-hetzner to download the latest release from GitHub
3. Get an API token from Hetzner with read & write access. This will be used to manage resources.

Development

Required environment variables

These are pre-configured in Dev Containers

Variable	Description	Example
DISK_IMAGE	Hetzner image tag	docker-ce
DISK_SIZE	Disk size in GB	30
GIT_REPO	Git repo to download	github.com/mrsimonemms/devpod-provider-hetzner
HCLOUD_TOKEN	Hetzner API token with read & write access	-
MACHINE_FOLDER	Local home folder	~/.ssh
MACHINE_ID	Unique identifier for the machine	some-machine-id
MACHINE_TYPE	Hetzner machine size	cx22
REGION	Hetzner region ID	nbg1
TOKEN	Deprecated. Replaced by HCLOUD_TOKEN	-

Testing independently of DevPod

To test the provider workflow, you can run the CLI commands directly.

Command	Description	Example
command	Run a command on the instance	COMMAND="ls -la" go run . command
create	Create an instance	go run . create
delete	Delete an instance and volume	go run . delete
init	Initialise an instance	go run . init
start	Start an instance	go run . start
status	Retrieve the status of an instance	go run . status
stop	Stop an instance	go run . stop

Testing in the DevPod ecosystem

This assumes a Linux AMD64 workspace - if you're developing on any other machine please update the instructions for that machine (PRs welcome).

These paths may differ on your machine.

To test the provider within the DevPod ecosystem:

1. Install the latest version of the Hetzner provider

2. Backup the original binary:

   mv ~/.devpod/contexts/default/providers/hetzner/binaries/hetzner_provider/devpod-provider-hetzner-linux-amd64 ~/.devpod/contexts/default/providers/hetzner/binaries/hetzner_provider/devpod-provider-hetzner-linux-amd64-orig
   

3. Build the binary:

   go build .
   

4. Move the new binary to the DevPod base:

   mv ./devpod-provider-hetzner ~/.devpod/contexts/default/providers/hetzner/binaries/hetzner_provider/devpod-provider-hetzner-linux-amd64
   

Contributing

• Get a Hetzner account
• Get an API token with read & write access
• Save this as HCLOUD_TOKEN in your .envrc file

Open in a container

• Open in a container

Commit style

All commits must be done in the Conventional Commit format.

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