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Hetzner Cloud Toolkit brings the Hetzner Cloud control panel into your editor. Create servers, manage networks, organise SSH keys, and inject Tailscale — all without leaving VS Code.
Features
🖥 Server Management
View all servers with live status indicators (running, off, initializing)
7-step creation wizard — name, server type, OS image, SSH keys, network, cloud-init, review
Power on / off / reboot from the context menu
Delete with confirmation
Root password shown in-editor when no SSH key is used
🗂 Multi-Project Support
Add as many Hetzner projects (API tokens) as you need
Switch active project from the sidebar or status bar
All tokens stored encrypted in VS Code's SecretStorage
🌐 Network Management
View all private networks and their subnets
Create networks inline — even from inside the server wizard
Delete networks with confirmation
🔑 SSH Key Management
View all SSH keys in your Hetzner project
Add a key by selecting a .pub file from ~/.ssh/
Delete keys with confirmation
Built-in SSH Key Generation Guide with step-by-step instructions for Windows, macOS, WSL, and Linux/RHEL — including a full explainer on Ed25519 vs RSA
🐟 Tailscale Auto-Install
Set a Tailscale auth key once — stored securely in SecretStorage
Toggle auto-injection in the server wizard
Automatically appends the correct runcmd block to your cloud-init
🚀 First-Use Onboarding
SETUP panel guides you through: adding your API key, generating SSH keys, and configuring Tailscale
Prompts the SSH key guide automatically when you add your first project
No other dependencies — no Node modules are bundled at runtime
Privacy & Security
API tokens are stored using VS Code's built-in SecretStorage API (OS-level encrypted keychain — Windows Credential Manager, macOS Keychain, libsecret on Linux)
No data is sent anywhere except directly to api.hetzner.cloud
