Hetzner Cloud CLI

hcloud is Hetzner's official CLI for provisioning and operating Hetzner Cloud resources, plus related Hetzner services like Storage Boxes and DNS zones. It covers both inventory-style inspection and day-2 changes such as server lifecycle, networking, volumes, firewalls, and load balancer operations.

• Create, inspect, update, and delete servers, volumes, networks, floating IPs, firewalls, load balancers, placement groups, certificates, and SSH keys from one CLI.
• Handle day-2 infrastructure work such as power actions, rebuilds, rescue mode, reverse DNS, backups, metrics, and network or firewall attachments.
• Manage related Hetzner services including Storage Boxes, subaccounts, snapshots, DNS zones, and RRsets without dropping to raw API calls.

• Repeated --output json and --output yaml support across create, list, and describe commands makes inspect, change, and verify loops easy to script and parse.
• Most resource operations are explicit non-interactive Cobra commands with stable flags, so they compose well in shell automation once auth context is already configured.
• Bootstrap and helper paths are less uniform: context create prompts for credentials by default, and commands like server ssh hand off to another interactive program instead of staying fully machine-oriented.

• You need a Hetzner API token and local context before most commands are useful; unattended setup works best with --token-from-env.
• Not every command exposes the same structured output surface, and experimental features can change within minor releases.