Hetzner Cloud engineers publish a technical overview of their network stack evolution, detailing how they built custom Open vSwitch-based solutions for VM host connectivity rather than relying on smart network infrastructure. The article covers their orchestration tool Flusskrebs, Private Networks, Firewalls, and the architecture choices behind their self-operated networking stack.
Background
Hetzner Cloud is a European cloud infrastructure provider offering VPS and bare metal hosting. This article is part of a series from their AI Engineering team exploring the internal architecture behind their cloud services.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10