Deploying Trellis to Hetzner Cloud

Hetzner Cloud is a cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual servers with competitive pricing that can handle most normal WordPress sites when provisioned with Trellis.

Creating a new server #

Trellis CLI comes with a trellis server create command to automatically create and provision a server for a specified environment:

$ trellis server create --provider=hetzner production

If the HCLOUD_TOKEN environment variable is not set, the command will prompt for one.

To avoid passing --provider every time, set Hetzner as your default provider in trellis.cli.yml:

server:
  provider: hetzner

Then you can simply run:

$ trellis server create production

Quick start (region and size will be prompted) #

$ trellis server create production

The remote server playbook will run and provision your server with PHP, Nginx, and everything else included in Trellis.

Additional options #

The command help file can be accessed by passing the --help flag:

$ trellis server create --help

Changes made after running the command #

After creating a new server, your local project will have a modified hosts file for the environment that you provisioned:

[production]
-your_server_hostname
+49.13.25.100

[web]
-your_server_hostname
+49.13.25.100

Deploying #

Once your server is provisioned you'll want to perform the first deploy. If you try to visit your site before deploying you'll see a server 500 error.

$ trellis deploy production

After the first deploy is done, you can now either install WordPress by visiting the site or even import an existing database.