Hi! 🤩

I'm Vito, a seasoned developer from Italy and based in Finland, where I work for event platform Brella. At Brella my role is primarily focused on a Rails backend as well as DevOps tasks concerning our infrastructure based on GKE (Kubernetes) and other Google Cloud services.

In my free time I write a blog at https://vitobotta.com/ on my journey as a developer and I am also working on a couple of open source projects.

My main open source project at the moment is a CLI tool written in Crystal to quickly create and manage cheap Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner Cloud (https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s). Many individuals as well as companies use this tool already to manage their clusters and save a significant amount of money compared to using more expensive providers.

If you are using or plan on using Kubernetes I suggest you check out hetzner-k3s and give it a try, especially if you are keen to keep your infrastructure costs down.

hetzner-k3s allows you to create production grade clusters very quickly and easily, for cheap. For the infrastructure, it uses Hetzner Cloud, a German provider with location both in Europe and in the USA. Hetzner is very affordable but also very reliable with great performance at the same time.

If you like and use the tool and it helps you save money, please consider sponsoring me so I can dedicate more time to improve it and add more features (I recently added autoscaling, for example).

Thank you for reading this and looking forward to hearing from you! 🙏