# Automate Hetzner deployment over SSH

> Automate Hetzner deployment: attach a server over SSH, let Docker, proxy, SSL and backups be set up, and hook it to the CI/CD pipeline.

> Source: https://www.mainpath.ai/en/alternatives/deploy-to-hetzner/

Hetzner is there in minutes. The rest of the day is Docker, certificates, firewall, backup. And the same list on the second server. Automating here does not mean rebuilding Hetzner. It means attaching the server so the pipeline knows it.