hcloud is a command-line interface for interacting with Hetzner Cloud.

You can download pre-built binaries for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows on the releases page.

On macOS, you can install hcloud via Homebrew:

brew install hcloud

There are unofficial packages maintained by third-party users. Please note that these packages aren’t supported nor maintained by Hetzner Cloud and may not always be up-to-date. Downloading the binary or building from source is still the recommended install method.

If you have Go installed, you can build and install the hcloud program with:

go get -u github.com/hetznercloud/cli/cmd/hcloud

1. Visit the Hetzner Cloud Console at console.hetzner.cloud, select your project, and create a new API token.

2. Configure the hcloud program to use your token:

   hcloud context create my-project
   

3. You’re ready to use the program. For example, to get a list of available server types, run:

   hcloud server-type list
   

See hcloud help for a list of commands.

To enable shell completion, run one of the following commands (or better, add it to your .bashrc or .zshrc):

$ source <(hcloud completion bash)   # bash
$ source <(hcloud completion zsh)    # zsh

If you are using antigen with zsh and completion doesn't work with the above try adding

function _hcloud_completion {
  source <(hcloud completion zsh)    # zsh  
}
compctl -K _hcloud_completion hcloud

instead.

You can control output via the -o option:

• For list commands, you can specify -o noheader to omit the table header.

• For list commands, you can specify -o columns=id,name to only show certain columns in the table.

• For describe commands, you can specify -o json to get a JSON representation of the resource. The schema is identical to those in the Hetzner Cloud API which are documented at docs.hetzner.cloud.

• For describe commands, you can specify -o format={{.ID}} to format output according to the given Go template. The template’s input is the resource’s corresponding struct in the hcloud-go library.

You can use the following environment variables to configure hcloud:

• HCLOUD_TOKEN
• HCLOUD_CONTEXT
• HCLOUD_CONFIG

When using hcloud in scripts, for example, it may be cumbersome to work with contexts. Instead of creating a context, you can set the token via the HCLOUD_TOKEN environment variable. When combined with tools like direnv, you can configure a per-directory context by setting HCLOUD_CONTEXT=my-context via .envrc.

$ hcloud server list            
ID       NAME                    STATUS    IPV4
210216   test1                   running   78.46.122.12
210729   ubuntu-8gb-nbg1-dc3-1   running   94.130.177.158

$ hcloud server create --name test --image debian-9 --type cx11 --ssh-key demo
   7s [====================================================================] 100%
Server 325211 created

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