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vCluster Brought Karpenter to Bare Metal. Here's What Actually Changes for a Cluster-API Fleet
·Dora Noda·8 min

vCluster Brought Karpenter to Bare Metal. Here's What Actually Changes for a Cluster-API Fleet

vCluster's Auto Nodes brings Karpenter-style provisioning to bare metal. Here's the concrete mechanics, the Hetzner Cloud-vs-dedicated reality check, and the per-tenant control-plane cost a Cluster-API fleet actually pays for it.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
scalability
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Vercel's Two Build Incidents in Three Days: What a Shared Build Pipeline Actually Costs You
·Dora Noda·8 min

Vercel's Two Build Incidents in Three Days: What a Shared Build Pipeline Actually Costs You

Vercel's build pipeline broke twice in three days in July 2026 — missing Build Logs, then an elevated build failure rate. Here's what a shared, multi-tenant build system's failure mode actually costs you, and what changes when you own it instead.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
13 Critical CVEs, One Patch: What the vm2 Sandbox-Escape Wave Says About Isolating AI Agents at the Wrong Layer
·Dora Noda·8 min

13 Critical CVEs, One Patch: What the vm2 Sandbox-Escape Wave Says About Isolating AI Agents at the Wrong Layer

A May 2026 wave of 13 critical vm2 CVEs shows why JavaScript-level sandboxing can't contain AI-agent code — and why kernel-level isolation like gVisor and Kata Containers is the layer that actually holds.

security
AI
self-hosting
infrastructure
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Volcano's Headlamp Plugin Kills the vcctl Guesswork: A Practical Walkthrough for Gang-Scheduling AI-Agent Batch Jobs on a Cluster API Fleet
·Dora Noda·11 min

Volcano's Headlamp Plugin Kills the vcctl Guesswork: A Practical Walkthrough for Gang-Scheduling AI-Agent Batch Jobs on a Cluster API Fleet

A production case study put GPU idle time at 38 percent from partial gang-scheduling failures alone. Here's how Volcano's gang scheduling and queue fairness fix that, what the new Headlamp plugin actually shows instead of vcctl output, and whether it's worth running over hand-rolled priority classes on a Cluster API fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
AI agents
infrastructure
WebMCP Lets a Web Page Register Its Own AI Tools. Does a Deploy Dashboard Need One?
·Dora Noda·9 min

WebMCP Lets a Web Page Register Its Own AI Tools. Does a Deploy Dashboard Need One?

Chrome's new WebMCP API lets a web page register its own AI-callable tools, but a deploy dashboard already has a REST/GraphQL API and an MCP server. Here's the actual capability delta, and why it's not worth building yet.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
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Zerops Says Its Pricing Is 'Just Hardware.' The Real Bill Runs 2.6x Raw Hetzner
·Dora Noda·8 min

Zerops Says Its Pricing Is 'Just Hardware.' The Real Bill Runs 2.6x Raw Hetzner

Zerops prices itself as pure hardware, no plans, no seat fees. Here's what the actual 2026 rate card charges for a real three-service app, and why the bill still runs 2.6x the cost of the identical specs on raw Hetzner hardware.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
Your Agent's Shell and Your Tenant's Container Cannot Share a Blast Radius
·Dora Noda·8 min

Your Agent's Shell and Your Tenant's Container Cannot Share a Blast Radius

A concrete node-pool, network-policy, and runtime-class architecture for keeping an AI agent's shell isolated from the tenant container it's deploying and operating.

security
infrastructure
self-hosting
AI
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AgentBox Puts a Bare Hetzner VM on the Same Feature Table as E2B and Daytona
·Dora Noda·9 min

AgentBox Puts a Bare Hetzner VM on the Same Feature Table as E2B and Daytona

AgentBox, a 247-star MIT CLI, already lists a bare Hetzner box next to E2B and Daytona on its provider table. A teardown of its checkpoint and credential-isolation mechanisms — and what a Cluster-API fleet should borrow versus build on kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox instead.

self-hosting
PaaS
AI
infrastructure
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Anubis Crosses 20,000 Stars: What Self-Hosting Your Own AI-Scraper Defense Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·9 min

Anubis Crosses 20,000 Stars: What Self-Hosting Your Own AI-Scraper Defense Actually Costs

Anubis's proof-of-work challenge crossed 20,000 GitHub stars fighting AI scrapers — here's what it actually costs in compute versus what its JavaScript requirement costs real visitors, and whether a self-hosted PaaS should bundle it.

security
cybersecurity
PaaS
self-hosting
+1
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