--- title: How I Am Setting Up VMs On Hetzner Cloud | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of an automated workflow for spinning up and configuring Linux VMs on Hetzner Cloud using Terraform and Ansible. Covers VM creation with the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-am-setting-up-vms-on-hetzner-cloud-hpoagrcsj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Am Setting Up VMs On Hetzner Cloud | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of an automated workflow for spinning up and configuring Linux VMs on Hetzner Cloud using Terraform and Ansible. 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Also highlights Hetzner's cost advantages over AWS and the ability to scale VM types up and down on demand. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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