How to setup Hetzner load balancer on a Kubernetes cluster

TL;DR: Recently (June 2020) Hetzner added a cloud native load balancer with Kubernetes support. Learn how to use it.

We finally have load balancer in Hetzner!

Introduction

Until a couple of months ago (June 2020) Germany Hetzner Cloud provider did not have a native cloud load balancer in its portfolio.

To achieve a “LoadBalancer” service in an Hetzner Kubernetes cluster you must to use a software solution like as MetalLB.

I wrote this previous post about how to create a Rancher Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner cloud using MetalLB.

How to create a Kubernetes cluster with Rancher on Hetzner

Now we are going to see how to create a Kubernetes cluster using the new Load Balancer service already available in Hetzner.

Hetzner Load Balancer at glance

The new and claimed Load Balancer (LB) service has a entry level price of 4.9€/mo. Not so bad.

For that price you have a LB with a traffic support up to 20 TB/mo, 5 services (“ports”) and 25 targets (nodes). It’s enough for small/medium…