cloud-sdk

cloud-sdk is a no_std-first Rust workspace for cloud provider SDKs. The first provider crate is cloud-sdk-hetzner, covering the Hetzner Cloud and DNS APIs. The default crates have no network client, TLS stack, async runtime, filesystem, clock, or secret-storage dependency. Transport and serialization remain explicit boundaries: v0.15 defines a no-network contract and testkit, v0.16 adds an opt-in blocking rustls adapter, v0.17 adds an executor-neutral async contract and optional Tokio-backed adapter, and v0.14 added narrowly reviewed no_std Serde and caller-buffer sanitization. None changes the default provider graph.

The project target is a serious production-ready cloud-sdk foundation and Hetzner provider at 1.0.0, reached through small reviewed releases with test, security, dependency, and release evidence. Future provider crates can follow the same pattern, especially focused cloud and SaaS providers such as cloud-sdk-scaleway or cloud-sdk-ovh.

Cost And Production Warning

Cloud APIs can create, modify, and delete billable resources. This SDK is built with careful review, tests, security gates, and release checks, but no SDK can guarantee that it is free from mistakes or that every provider-side API behavior is risk-free.

Before running code against a real cloud account, review the exact operations, inputs, permissions, and provider pricing yourself. You are responsible for the infrastructure actions you execute and for any costs, downtime, data loss, or configuration changes caused by those actions. If you find an SDK mistake, please report it so it can be fixed.

Current Status

Status: v0.17.0 async transport implementation stop reached; pentest required. The latest published release is v0.16.0.

Implemented now:

• Rust workspace pinned to stable 1.97.0.
• MSRV policy for Rust 1.90.0 through 1.97.0.
• Edition 2024 and workspace resolver 3.
• cloud-sdk provider-neutral crate.
• cloud-sdk-hetzner provider crate with focused internal modules.
• Initial Hetzner API surface partition for Cloud, DNS, security, and Storage Box resources.
• Provider-neutral blocking and runtime-neutral async transport contracts, plus a no_std deterministic mock testkit implementing both contracts.
• Optional hardened provider-neutral blocking and async reqwest/rustls transports, plus admitted guarded caller-buffer sanitization.
• Local checks for formatting, linting, tests, no_std policy, modularity, and file length.
• MIT OR Apache-2.0 license.
• Security, implementation, release, modularity, supply-chain, and threat-model docs.
• Official Hetzner Cloud/DNS and Storage Box spec source lock for v0.2.0.
• Complete source-derived API matrix with 221 operations, owner modules, pagination, sorting, action behavior, deprecation status, and implementation status.
• Local upstream lock validation for the pinned Hetzner spec URLs and hashes.
• Hetzner API drift detection for added, removed, and changed operations and component schemas.
• Core Hetzner request/response policy domains for endpoint paths, base URL selection, endpoint group base mapping, bounded query parameters, fixed-buffer percent encoding, labels, pagination, sorting, action status, API errors, and rate-limit metadata.
• Read-only Hetzner catalog request primitives for locations, pricing, server types, load balancer types, ISOs, and public images.
• Hetzner security request primitives for SSH key CRUD, certificate CRUD, and certificate retry action endpoints.
• Hetzner server request primitives for server CRUD, metrics, and server action endpoint paths.
• Hetzner server-adjacent request primitives for images, placement groups, primary IPs, and their v0.7 action paths.
• Hetzner storage/IP request primitives for volumes, floating IPs, and their v0.8 action paths.
• Hetzner Storage Box request primitives for boxes, box types, snapshots, subaccounts, Storage Box actions, and subaccount actions.
• Hetzner Firewall request primitives for CRUD, resource application, and validated rule replacement.
• Hetzner Network request primitives for CRUD, routes, subnets, range changes, and protection actions.
• Hetzner Load Balancer request primitives for CRUD, metrics, services, targets, network attachment, reverse DNS, protection, algorithms, type changes, and public-interface actions.
• Hetzner DNS Zone request primitives for CRUD, zonefile import/export, primary nameservers, TTL and protection actions, and action listing.
• Hetzner DNS RRSet request primitives for CRUD, list filtering, TTL and protection actions, and bounded record mutations.
• Optional no_std Serde boundary for size-checked RRSet request bodies and validated shared action/error response envelopes.

Not implemented yet:

• No provider-level client that executes typed Hetzner request models end to end; v0.17 exposes reviewed provider-neutral blocking and async transports.
• No token storage or secret manager integration.
• No broad request/response serialization outside the reviewed RRSet and shared response boundary.
• No pagination iterator.
• No retry, rate-limit, or action polling helper.
• No generated response model.
• No live Hetzner API tests.
• No non-Hetzner providers yet. Smaller focused cloud and SaaS providers such as Scaleway and OVH are better future fits than hyperscaler-scale APIs, but no non-Hetzner provider is a 1.0 deliverable.
• No Robot Webservice support. Robot is planned after the Hetzner Cloud/DNS provider reaches 1.0.0, likely as a 1.1.0 track exposed through cloud-sdk-hetzner.

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Provider Roadmap

Install

[dependencies]
cloud-sdk = "0.17.0"
cloud-sdk-hetzner = "0.15.2"

Provider-Neutral Example

use cloud_sdk::{ApiFamily, Method, Provider};

let provider = Provider::Hetzner;
let family = ApiFamily::Cloud;
let method = Method::Get;

assert_eq!(provider, Provider::Hetzner);
assert_eq!(family, ApiFamily::Cloud);
assert_eq!(method, Method::Get);

Transport Contract Example

use cloud_sdk::Method;
use cloud_sdk::transport::{RequestTarget, TransportRequest};

let Ok(target) = RequestTarget::new("/servers?page=1") else {
    return;
};
let request = TransportRequest::new(Method::Get, target);

assert_eq!(request.method(), Method::Get);
assert_eq!(request.target().as_str(), "/servers?page=1");
assert!(request.body().is_empty());

The core contracts perform no I/O and select no executor. Use cloud-sdk-testkit for deterministic blocking or async tests, or opt into cloud-sdk-reqwest/blocking-rustls or async-rustls for HTTPS.

Optional Blocking Transport

[dependencies]
cloud-sdk = "0.17.0"
cloud-sdk-reqwest = { version = "0.14.0", features = ["blocking-rustls"] }

use std::time::Duration;

use cloud_sdk::Method;
use cloud_sdk::transport::{BlockingTransport, RequestTarget, TransportRequest};
use cloud_sdk_reqwest::blocking::{
    BearerToken, BlockingClientBuilder, HttpsEndpoint, RequestTimeouts,
    UserAgent,
};

let Ok(endpoint) = HttpsEndpoint::new("https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1") else { return };
let Ok(token) = BearerToken::new("replace-with-scoped-token") else { return };
let Ok(user_agent) = UserAgent::new("my-service/1.0") else { return };
let Ok(timeouts) = RequestTimeouts::new(
    Duration::from_secs(30),
    Duration::from_secs(10),
) else { return };
let Ok(mut client) = BlockingClientBuilder::new(endpoint, token, user_agent, timeouts).build()
else { return };

let Ok(target) = RequestTarget::new("/servers?page=1") else { return };
let request = TransportRequest::new(Method::Get, target);
let mut response_body = [0_u8; 65_536];
let Ok(response) = client.send(request, &mut response_body) else { return };

assert!(response.status().is_success());

The production builder is HTTPS-only, requires explicit bounded timeouts and a user agent, uses rustls with TLS 1.2 minimum, and disables redirects, retries, proxies, referer generation, and response decompression. It forces HTTP/1 and the system resolver even if another dependency enables reqwest HTTP/2 or Hickory DNS. The caller owns token generation, scope, rotation, revocation, and cleanup of the original secret; the adapter clears only its own token and request-body storage.

Optional Async Transport

[dependencies]
cloud-sdk = "0.17.0"
cloud-sdk-reqwest = { version = "0.14.0", features = ["async-rustls"] }

use cloud_sdk::Method;
use cloud_sdk::transport::{AsyncTransport, RequestTarget, TransportRequest};

let Ok(target) = RequestTarget::new("/servers?page=1") else { return };
let request = TransportRequest::new(Method::Get, target);
let mut response_body = [0_u8; 65_536];
let Ok(response) = AsyncTransport::send(&mut client, request, &mut response_body).await
else { return };

assert!(response.status().is_success());

The async adapter requires an active Tokio executor because reqwest uses Tokio internally; the core trait and testkit remain executor-neutral. Responses are buffered only up to caller capacity and copied after complete success. Timeout, read failure, overflow, or cancellation leaves the caller buffer cleared.

Fixed Buffer Example

use cloud_sdk::buffer::write_query_u64;

# fn main() -> Result<(), ()> {
let mut output = [0u8; 8];
let mut len = 0;
let mut first = true;
write_query_u64(&mut output, &mut len, &mut first, "page", 0, ())?;

let query = output
    .get(..len)
    .and_then(|bytes| core::str::from_utf8(bytes).ok());
assert_eq!(query, Some("page=0"));
# Ok(())
# }

JSON String Example

use cloud_sdk::buffer::write_json_string;

# fn main() -> Result<(), ()> {
let mut output = [0u8; 48];
let mut len = 0;
write_json_string(&mut output, &mut len, "line\n\"quoted\"", ())?;

let value = output
    .get(..len)
    .and_then(|bytes| core::str::from_utf8(bytes).ok());
assert_eq!(value, Some("\"line\\n\\\"quoted\\\"\""));
# Ok(())
# }

Workspace Crates

The workspace uses one primary crate per provider. Provider-specific API families remain modules inside that crate; reusable transport, testkit, serialization, and sanitization boundaries remain provider-neutral. Package names with another scoped suffix, such as cloud-sdk-ovh-reqwest or cloud-sdk-scaleway-dns, are rejected by release automation.

The root README documents the workspace and release process. Crate-local README files document the crate-specific role and examples. For Hetzner-specific usage, start with cloud-sdk-hetzner.

Hetzner endpoint modules live inside the provider crate:

crates/cloud-sdk-hetzner/src/
  actions.rs
  endpoint.rs
  labels.rs
  pagination.rs
  rate_limit.rs
  request.rs
  response.rs
  cloud/catalog.rs
  cloud/
  dns/
  security/
  storage/

API Scope

The first planning pass covers the Hetzner Cloud API reference at https://docs.hetzner.cloud/reference/cloud, including overview material for authentication, query parameters, errors, actions, labels, pagination, rate limiting, server metadata, sorting, and deprecation notices.

Robot Webservice support is intentionally post-1.0. It uses a different API shape, authentication model, and request encoding than the Cloud/DNS API. The planned direction is to expose it through cloud-sdk-hetzner after 1.0, without letting Robot-specific behavior weaken the default Cloud SDK design.

Endpoint groups scheduled for the SDK:

The v0.2.0 planning pass source-locked the official machine-readable specs:

• Cloud and DNS: https://docs.hetzner.cloud/cloud.spec.json
• Storage Boxes: https://docs.hetzner.cloud/hetzner.spec.json

docs/API_MATRIX.md tracks all 221 discovered operations. Deprecated operations remain listed for drift tracking, but are marked deferred-deprecated until the SDK has an explicit compatibility policy.

Before changing endpoint models, run:

scripts/check_hetzner_api_drift.py --fetch

That compares the current upstream specs with the locked operation and schema fingerprints in docs/API_FINGERPRINTS.tsv and docs/API_SCHEMA_FINGERPRINTS.tsv.

Do not refresh lock files directly from a drift report. First review the upstream changes and update the pinned spec hashes in the source-lock evidence. Then refresh the fingerprints during the reviewed source-lock pass:

scripts/check_hetzner_api_drift.py --fetch --write-lock --accept-lock-refresh

The write path verifies fetched spec bytes against the pinned SHA-256 values before overwriting the fingerprint files.

Rust Version Support

The minimum supported Rust version is Rust 1.90.0. Development uses the pinned stable Rust 1.97.0 until the toolchain policy is updated.

Compatibility verification matrix for current main:

Checks

scripts/checks.sh
scripts/release_0_1_gate.sh
scripts/check_hetzner_upstream.sh --local-only
scripts/check_hetzner_api_drift.py --fetch
scripts/release_0_2_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_3_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_4_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_5_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_6_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_7_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_8_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_9_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_10_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_11_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_12_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_13_gate.sh
scripts/release_0_14_gate.sh