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title: Rancher Hetzner Cloud Quick Start Guide
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description: Read this step by step Rancher Hetzner Cloud guide to quickly deploy a Rancher server with a single-node downstream Kubernetes cluster attached.
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<link rel="canonical" href="https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/getting-started/quick-start-guides/deploy-rancher-manager/hetzner-cloud"/>
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</head>
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The following steps will quickly deploy a Rancher server on Hetzner Cloud in a single-node K3s Kubernetes cluster, with a single-node downstream Kubernetes cluster attached.
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:::caution
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The intent of these guides is to quickly launch a sandbox that you can use to evaluate Rancher. These guides are not intended for production environments. For comprehensive setup instructions, see [Installation](../../../pages-for-subheaders/installation-and-upgrade.md).
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:::
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## Prerequisites
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:::caution
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Deploying to Hetzner Cloud will incur charges.
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:::
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- [Hetzner Cloud Account](https://www.hetzner.com): You will require an account on Hetzner as this is where the server and cluster will run.
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- [Hetzner API Access Key](https://docs.hetzner.cloud/#getting-started): Use these instructions to create a Hetzner Cloud API Key if you don't have one.
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- [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html): Used to provision the server and cluster to Hetzner.
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## Getting Started
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1. Clone [Rancher Quickstart](https://github.com/rancher/quickstart) to a folder using `git clone https://github.com/rancher/quickstart`.
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2. Go into the Hetzner folder containing the Terraform files by executing `cd quickstart/rancher/hcloud`.
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3. Rename the `terraform.tfvars.example` file to `terraform.tfvars`.
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4. Edit `terraform.tfvars` and customize the following variables:
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- `hcloud_token` - Hetzner API access key
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- `rancher_server_admin_password` - Admin password for created Rancher server (minimum 12 characters)
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5. **Optional:** Modify optional variables within `terraform.tfvars`.
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See the [Quickstart Readme](https://github.com/rancher/quickstart) and the [Hetzner Quickstart Readme](https://github.com/rancher/quickstart/tree/master/rancher/hcloud) for more information.
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Suggestions include:
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- `prefix` - Prefix for all created resources
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- `instance_type` - Instance type, minimum required is `cx21`
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- `hcloud_location` - Hetzner Cloud location, choose the closest instead of the default (`fsn1`)
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6. Run `terraform init`.
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7. To initiate the creation of the environment, run `terraform apply --auto-approve`. Then wait for output similar to the following:
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```
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Apply complete! Resources: 15 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
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Outputs:
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rancher_node_ip = xx.xx.xx.xx
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rancher_server_url = https://rancher.xx.xx.xx.xx.sslip.io
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workload_node_ip = yy.yy.yy.yy
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```
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8. Paste the `rancher_server_url` from the output above into the browser. Log in when prompted (default username is `admin`, use the password set in `rancher_server_admin_password`).
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9. ssh to the Rancher Server using the `id_rsa` key generated in `quickstart/rancher/hcloud`.
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#### Result
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Two Kubernetes clusters are deployed into your Hetzner account, one running Rancher Server and the other ready for experimentation deployments. Please note that while this setup is a great way to explore Rancher functionality, a production setup should follow our high availability setup guidelines. SSH keys for the VMs are auto-generated and stored in the module directory.
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### What's Next?
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Use Rancher to create a deployment. For more information, see [Creating Deployments](../../../pages-for-subheaders/deploy-rancher-workloads.md).
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## Destroying the Environment
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1. From the `quickstart/rancher/hcloud` folder, execute `terraform destroy --auto-approve`.
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2. Wait for confirmation that all resources have been destroyed.
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