About kubehz
Mission
Make Kubernetes on Hetzner accessible to everyone, from solo developers to growing teams. No vendor lock-in, no enterprise pricing barriers, no complexity walls.
Why Hetzner?
Hetzner offers some of the best price-to-performance ratios in European cloud infrastructure. Dedicated servers with 128 GB RAM and NVMe storage for under €100/mo. Cloud VMs at a fraction of hyperscaler prices. Data centers in Germany with strong privacy protections.
The missing piece was always the Kubernetes management layer. That is what kubehz provides.
How it works, in one breath
kubehz has two independent axes: hosting (you run the control plane, or kubehz does) and access (how much kubehz sees: nothing, read-only health, or, with a Supporter subscription, managed). The everyday combination is self-hosted + registered: your cluster on your account, kubehz as a read-only dashboard. Read the full model →
Your data — a firm promise
For self-hosted clusters this is a guarantee, not marketing
- Only the data the feature you turned on needs ever leaves your cluster. Read-only health for
registered; management data formanaged. That is the entire list. - No telemetry. No analytics. Nothing else. Not your workloads, not your secrets, not your logs.
- Outbound-only. The in-cluster agent pushes a status snapshot on a schedule. kubehz never connects into your cluster and holds no inbound credentials to it.
- Least privilege by design. Read-only visibility needs no Hetzner token. You grant each capability only the access it needs, nothing more.
Philosophy
Open source first
lok8s, the CLI that powers everything, is open source. You can use it without kubehz. You are never locked in.
Transparency
Our prices come from measured costs on our own fleet. We explain our pricing. No hidden fees, no surprises.
Pay what you want
Paid tiers are open today. They are pay-what-you-want with a minimum, and kubehz issues its own EU-compliant invoices with your own billing history and VAT profile. Nothing is charged before 1 November 2026, and you get 10 days’ notice first. The self-hosted free tier is real today: not a trap, not time-limited, not crippled.
EU data sovereignty
Our infrastructure is in Germany. No US cloud dependencies. No data transfers outside the EU.
The team
kubehz is built by kernpilot, a small team of infrastructure engineers who believe managed Kubernetes should not cost hundreds of euros per month. The parts that run on your side are open source and readable today: the lok8s CLI that provisions every cluster, and the in-cluster agent (read-only, outbound-only, no telemetry). The platform services are not open yet.
Open source
kubehz is built on and contributes to the open-source Kubernetes ecosystem:
- lok8s: CLI for Kubernetes on Hetzner
- kubehz-agent: the read-only, outbound-only agent that runs in your cluster
- Cluster API: declarative cluster lifecycle
- KubeOne: cluster provisioning
- Hetzner Cloud Controller Manager: wires Hetzner load balancers, networks, and server metadata into Kubernetes