For those who like k3s and are familiar with it, this looks like a great natural initiative. I never really bought into k3s myself for whatever reason, even on RPis I don’t feel too constrained on resources.

A similar approach I’ve been using is using Syself (running it for about half a year now with no issues). They contributed the Cluster API provider for Hetzner, which is obviously Chad. Of course, I wish CAPI were a bit less involved, but that’s exactly where external help makes sense. I am totally fully sold on CAPI, but then again always need your base cluster.

I still want to set up CAPI on my own, but still preferred having “someone else” host the control plane. With CAPI, though, you have the flexibility to do either.

Also Talos and Omni are cool and pretty chill on Hetzner. Fantastic tools. Still though I just like the "raw-ish" feel to kubeadm and CAPI feels the most "native" solution.

In terms of addons, I have my very curated yaml manifestos. And ArgoCD Application sets. That part is hard for me to replace, but that should defenitely be married with a UI.