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Right, I’m back to focussing on Domain* now that another round of dev is complete on Kitten** and, two years after I originally asked the question: does anyone know of a comparable service to Hetzner Cloud (API, affordable, very quick server setup, VPS) that supports CoreOS?
I still can’t find any. And my attempts to get Hetzner to support it have failed (mostly due to lack of interest on Fedora’s side) 
(A few notes:
- Setting up a server and then installing CoreOS is out of the question. Small Web sites have to be set up in under a minute.
- Must be affordable. We need to be sustainable while not charging more than €10/mo.)
- EU-based.
Right now, it seems I’ll have to go with Ubuntu although I really don’t want to as I want the rpm-ostree auto-updates in CoreOS to make the sites zero admin as possible.)
@aral provide free hosting as proof of concept, dist premade images, enable ddns, have tiered hosting with perks, diversify rev streams cause it is a race to the bottom - try a bunch of things and leverage open source plus more - get partners to buy in - network and also try other moonshots as well - diversify and do reporting/analytics on what gets traction
@gary_alderson My requirements are… unconventional.
@aral two thoughts:
First: If you run it in your own Hetzner account you could prepare a CoreOS image. Hetzner allows you to create custom images in your account.
Second: I don't know if you can share said custom images across accounts. But since it's the same mechanism as standard images, I would guess you can. Maybe you can talk with the Hetzner support to somehow get a multi-account image you can share via API?
@sheogorath Hmm, it would be running in our own account so that isn’t a problem. Haven’t seen anything about this in the interface. Will have another look, thanks :)
@sheogorath Hmm, looks like you can email them to ask them to add a custom image to your account. Just sent a technical support ticket requesting the addition of CoreOS stable as a custom image. Let’s see what happens :)
Thanks again.
@aral there is no web interface from my understanding, but packer allows you to do that. I remember this from developing okd4-hcloud: https://github.com/slauger/hcloud-okd4/blob/master/packer/hcloud-fcos.json
https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hetznercloud/hcloud
Mechanism is always the same:
1. take any image
2. dd the coreos image on /dev/sda
3. Make a snapshot of the machine
Now you can boot new machines from this snapshot.
@sheogorath Hmm… looks like there’s even a template for CoreOS specifically. Will try this out and see how fast the provisioning process is (in my previous tests, provisioning from snapshots took several minutes as opposed to < minute for their core images). Thanks again!