Edka

# Edka > Turn your Hetzner account into an automated platform for apps, databases, observability, and private AI agent runtimes. Last updated: 2026-06-18 Automate Kubernetes infrastructure with Cloud and Metal instances, GitOps workflows, one click addons, private agent runtimes, and built in observability. ## Key Benefits: - Keep infrastructure in your cloud account with direct provider billing - Maintain full root access and control over your infrastructure - Start with Cloud and Metal instances for sustained workloads - Eliminate complexity with preconfigured addons and automated deployments - Exit anytime - no vendor lock in, keep full access to your infrastructure ## Features: - K3s-based lightweight Kubernetes clusters optimized for performance - One click deployment of essential addons (cert-manager, metrics-server, Gateway API controllers) - Automated application deployments with semantic versioning and instant rollbacks - Built in GitOps workflows for infrastructure as code - Integrated monitoring, logging, and alerting out of the box - Autoscaling, persistent volumes, and secrets management - Minimal configuration UIs for databases, monitoring stacks, and more ## How It Works - **Layer 1 - Cluster Provisioning**: Creates optimized K3s clusters on infrastructure you control - **Layer 2 - Addons**: One click deploy essential Kubernetes operators and tools - **Layer 3 - Applications**: Deploy databases, monitoring, and services with minimal config - **Layer 4 - Deployments**: Automated updates, rollbacks, scaling, and traffic management ## Documentation - [Documentation](https://edka.io/docs/): Complete guide to using Edka - [Getting Started](https://edka.io/docs/get-started/): Quick start tutorials ## Blog Posts - [GitHub Deployments, Preview Environments and Wildcard TLS](https://edka.io/blog/branch-deployments-previews-tls/): Git based branch deployments with PR previews and managed wildcard TLS for domains - [MySQL on Edka with MOCO](https://edka.io/blog/mysql-ha-with-moco/): Highly available MySQL clusters with backups and point in time recovery powered by the MOCO operator - [Join Our Beta Today](https://edka.io/blog/join-our-beta/): Public beta of Edka platform - deploy your application in minutes with one free cluster ## Kubernetes Addons - [Cert Manager](https://edka.io/add-ons/cert-manager/): Automate TLS certificate issuance and renewal across Kubernetes - [Envoy Gateway](https://edka.io/add-ons/envoy-gateway/): Managed Gateway API controller with public and private entry points for Kubernetes workloads - [NGINX Ingress](https://edka.io/add-ons/nginx/): Deprecated ingress controller. Edka standardizes on Gateway API with Envoy Gateway; existing NGINX Ingress installs should migrate. - [Metrics Server](https://edka.io/add-ons/metrics-server/): Enable resource metrics and autoscaling in Kubernetes with CPU and memory metrics - [Keel](https://edka.io/add-ons/keel/): Automate Kubernetes deployments with automated updates and continuous delivery - [External Secrets](https://edka.io/add-ons/external-secrets/): Securely sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, Vault, GCP Secret Manager and more - [CloudNative PG](https://edka.io/add-ons/cloudnative-pg/): Production grade PostgreSQL operator with automated failover, backups, and high availability ## Applications - [PostgreSQL](https://edka.io/apps/postgresql/): Production ready PostgreSQL database with automated backups and high availability (Free plan) - [Redis Stack](https://edka.io/apps/redis-stack/): High performance in memory data store with caching and real time analytics (Free plan) - [Prometheus Stack](https://edka.io/apps/prometheus-stack/): Complete monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager (Standard plan) - [Elasticsearch](https://edka.io/apps/elasticsearch/): Distributed search and analytics engine for real time data exploration (Pro plan) - [Varnish Cache](https://edka.io/apps/varnish/): Kubernetes native HTTP caching wit […gekürzt]