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Managed Kubernetes for European companies — built on Hetzner, data stays in the EU

Cybermindnet now offers production Kubernetes clusters with end-to-end accountability.

When designing today's cloud setup, "how cheap" and "how fast to provision" are no longer the only questions. More and more companies ask: where do our data physically live, who can access them, and under whose law? Cybermindnet now offers managed Kubernetes clusters with a clear answer: your data stays in Europe, protected by European law.

Why Hetzner

Hetzner Online is a German hosting provider with its own data centers in Nuremberg (nbg1), Falkenstein (fsn1), and Helsinki (hel1). Cybermindnet runs production clusters on Hetzner using both Hetzner Cloud (compute) and Hetzner Object Storage (S3-compatible backup storage). No packet ever leaves the EU.

What you get

Our reference setup is a 3 control-plane × 3 worker cluster. We deploy the same architecture for customers, scaling up or down based on workload.

  • OS: Talos Linux — immutable, API-driven OS purpose-built for Kubernetes. No SSH, no ad-hoc changes — everything declarative via Terraform.
  • Network: Cilium CNI with eBPF routing. Network policies, observability, BGP route advertisements.
  • Storage: Longhorn — distributed block storage with cross-node replication. Snapshots, hot backups, S3 recovery.
  • TLS: cert-manager — automatic Let's Encrypt issuance and renewal. No certbot cron jobs, no 2am surprises.
  • Ingress: ingress-nginx with automatic TLS, rate-limiting, WAF rules tailored to your apps.
  • Monitoring: kube-prometheus-stack — Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager. Pre-built dashboards for Kubernetes plus custom dashboards for your applications and business metrics.
  • Logs: Loki + Promtail — centralized logging for every pod, queryable from Grafana, retention to match your SLA.
  • Backups: Velero backs up Kubernetes manifests; Longhorn snapshots PVCs nightly into Hetzner Object Storage. Disaster recovery is not theoretical — we run periodic restore drills and document RTO/RPO.

Who this is for

  • Startups and scale-ups needing production environments without an in-house DevOps team
  • Established companies moving off AWS/GCP/Azure for cost or data-residency reasons
  • Public sector and regulated entities (banks, insurance, healthcare) for whom EU data residency is a compliance must
  • Companies with DORA / NIS2 / GDPR requirements who can't sleep knowing US-resident data is just one subpoena away

No vendor lock-in

The entire stack is open source and standard: Terraform (Hetzner Cloud), Talos, Kubernetes, Helm. If you leave us, your setup is portable — Terraform state, Helm charts, runbooks all handed over. No proprietary black boxes.

How to start

Pricing is on request — we prepare an estimate after we understand your workload, growth expectations, and compliance needs. Drop us a line at info@cybermindnet.eu or via our contact form.

Your data deserves to live in Europe. We're happy to help.