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Hetzner Cloud Setup

The Pulumi Hetzner Cloud provider uses the Hetzner Cloud SDK to manage and provision resources.

Pulumi relies on the Hetzner Cloud SDK to authenticate requests from your computer to Hetzner Cloud. Your credentials are never sent to pulumi.com.

The Pulumi Hetzner Cloud Provider needs to be configured with Hetzner Cloud credentials before it can be used to create resources.

Configuring Credentials

Once obtained, there are two ways to communicate your authorization tokens to Pulumi:

  1. Set the environment variable HCLOUD_TOKEN:

    $ export HCLOUD_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  2. Set them using configuration, if you prefer that they be stored alongside your Pulumi stack for easy multi-user access:

    $ pulumi config set hcloud:token XXXXXXXXXXXXXX --secret

Remember to pass --secret when setting hcloud:token so that it is properly encrypted. A full set of configuration parameters can be found listed on the Project README.