DevPod Provider Hetzner

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

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

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. 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 key	-
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

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