Best hosting for Terraform-managed infrastructure?

I have used the DigitalOcean Terraform provider in production for about 18 months now. It is solid. Covers droplets, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, managed databases, all of it. Rarely breaks on provider updates.

The Vultr one is functional but less mature. Last time I checked it was missing a few resources that the API supports.

Honestly though, if you are already happy with Hetzner, Linode (Akamai) would be my pick for the second region. Their Terraform provider is actively maintained and they have data centers in regions Hetzner does not cover (Tokyo, Sydney, Mumbai). API is clean and well-documented.

Avoid OVH for this use case. Their API is a nightmare to work with programmatically.

Seconding the Linode recommendation. Their Terraform provider covers everything I have needed so far.

One tip: if you are doing multi-provider setups, have a look at Pulumi as well. It lets you write your infrastructure in actual programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go) instead of HCL. Made my life easier when I needed conditional logic across providers.

Budget-wise, Linode's $5/mo shared instances are great for staging environments managed through Terraform. Same API, same Terraform resources, just cheaper specs.