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Welcome to this whirlwind tour or hooking up your hstacks account to your Hetzner Cloud account. So you're going to

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head to your Hetzner Cloud dashboard and you're going to click on a project. And in this

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project we're going to create an API key. So an API key is tied to a Hetzner Cloud project

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and we can use that in hstacks to create resources like Servers, Firewalls and Volumes inside this

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Hetzner Cloud project. So once you're in your project go down to security, click on "API Tokens"

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and we're just going to generate an API token. So we're going to give it a name, we're going to

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call it "hetzner-token", give it a read and write permissions, we're going to generate that and

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then we're going to copy that over. Next step is to head over to your hstacks account,

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go to keys, create key, fresh key, give it a name, go give it that quickly. We can add that key to our

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hstacks account. Now we want to associate that Key to a Token. So when you have a Token it is

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associated with a Key that gives the ability for you to tie your hstacks accounts to your

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Hetzner Cloud account. So once we're in Tokens we can go to "Create token", we can pick our key,

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in this case "fresh-key", we'll give the name "fresh-token", and we can create that token. And that's

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it, we now have everything we need to authenticate with our Hetzner Cloud account inside that

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project that we created an API key for. Let's give it a quick demo, let's run and create a Stack,

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I'm going to fire up a Server, "first-stack", so we'll update our name, we don't need to use

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any webbooks right now, we want to create a Server, so "first-server", we can choose what type of

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server we want, I'm going to go for the CAX11. We can choose the image that we want, I want to use

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Ubuntu 24.04. And let's fire this up in Nuremberg, so we can use that value. We'll start it immediately,

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we won't give it an SSH Key, we can give it a start script, so let's have it update + upgrade

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Ubuntu to the latest versions, so "sudo-apt update -y", "sudo apt upgrade", and just in case there's

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yes, give it a label, "hello world", add that to the template, now we can validate that stack,

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we can see it's valid, we can deploy that Stack, we can use our fresh token which has the key,

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and then we can go deploy. And that's it! It's going to build that server for me right now,

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and it's finished, that's it! if we go back to our Hetzner Cloud account,

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we can see in our Servers, there it is right there, just configured, ready to go 🚀