The Vision
Welcome to the technical journal of building a cutting-edge AI framework on Hetzner Cloud infrastructure. This blog will document the entire journey - from provisioning a minimal Kubernetes cluster to deploying a full-stack AI platform with microservices, monitoring, and production-grade reliability.
Why Hetzner Cloud?
Hetzner Cloud offers:
- Cost-effective infrastructure - Great price-to-performance ratio
- European data centers - GDPR compliance and low latency
- Flexible APIs - Perfect for Infrastructure as Code
- Robust networking - Private networks and firewalls
The Tech Stack
Infrastructure Layer
- Terraform - Infrastructure as Code for reproducible deployments
- Kubernetes - Container orchestration (v1.30 with kubeadm)
- Calico/Flannel - Pod networking CNI
- containerd - Container runtime
Monitoring & Observability
- Prometheus - Metrics collection and alerting
- Grafana - Visualization and dashboards
- Loki - Log aggregation
- Promtail - Log shipping
Application Layer (Coming Soon)
- Microservices architecture
- AI/ML model serving
- API gateway and service mesh
- Data processing pipelines
What's Next?
In upcoming posts, I'll be sharing:
- Infrastructure Setup - Detailed walkthrough of the Terraform configuration
- Kubernetes Deep Dive - Cloud-init scripts, networking, and storage
- Monitoring Stack - Setting up Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
- Security Hardening - Implementing security best practices
- CI/CD Pipeline - Automated deployments and testing
- Microservices Architecture - Service design and communication patterns
- AI Model Deployment - Serving ML models at scale
Follow Along
This is a living project - every commit, every decision, every lesson learned will be documented here. Whether you're building your own Kubernetes cluster, exploring Hetzner Cloud, or developing an AI platform, I hope this journey provides valuable insights.
The code is open source and available on GitHub.
Let's build something extraordinary together.
Stay tuned for the next post where we'll dive deep into the Terraform infrastructure setup!