Create a Hetzner API token

Learn how to create the API token InfraNest needs to connect to your Hetzner project — useful for anyone setting up Hetzner cloud resources or DNS in InfraNest.

Overview

• InfraNest needs an API token from your Hetzner project to connect to your account.
• The same token covers both your cloud resources and your DNS zones, so you only need to create it once.
• You'll create this token in the Hetzner Cloud Console, then paste it into InfraNest.

Create the token

1. Sign in to the Hetzner Cloud Console.

2. Open your project, then go to Security → API Tokens.

   

3. Select Generate API Token, give it a name (like "InfraNest"), and choose Read & Write.

   

4. Copy the token now — Hetzner shows it only once.

WarningChoose Read & Write, not Read. A read-only token can see your resources but can't manage them.

Next step

Go back to InfraNest and follow Connect Hetzner to paste the token.