68 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Cluster API Stops Serving v1beta1 in v1.16: The Seven-Row Migration Audit Every CAPI Platform Owes Itself Before April 2027
Cluster API's v1beta1 API stops being served in v1.16, April 2027 — and CAPD's Docker resources are removed a release earlier. Here's the seven-place audit, what clusterctl convert does and doesn't cover, and how to sequence the upgrade as management-cluster Kubernetes support narrows to v1.33-v1.36.
Static Outbound IPs Are a Paid Add-On on PaaS and a Free Property of Your Own Server
Railway shipped static outbound IPs and IPv6 on July 3, 2026 — Pro-only, three shared IPs per service with HA migration by July 13. What that costs, why allowlists turn egress into a production dependency, and why hardware you own solves it with one exclusive IP and no feature toggle.
Render Just Made PgBouncer Free. Here's the Connection-Pooling Homework You Inherit When You Self-Host Postgres
Render's July 2026 changelog bundles PgBouncer free with paid Postgres. Here is every decision that toggle makes for you — pooler choice, transaction vs session mode, prepared-statement fixes — plus a complete pgbouncer.ini for reproducing it on your own hardware.
Heroku Is in Sustaining-Engineering Mode. Dokku Is the Obvious Exit — Here's What It Actually Gets You (and What It Doesn't)
Heroku's February 2026 shift to sustaining engineering has teams planning exits. A grounded look at migrating to Dokku: the Heroku-to-Dokku concept map, the honest limits of a single-server PaaS, the ten-command migration, and where the one-box ceiling ends.
Kubernetes v1.37's Deprecation Sweep: The Migration Inventory a Cluster API Fleet Needs Before August 26
Kubernetes v1.37 lands August 26, 2026, and the July 31 sneak peek already names every deprecation and breaking change. Here is the full migration inventory for a Cluster API fleet — ipvs kube-proxy, static-pod Secret refs, cgroup v1, SELinuxMount GA — with the audit command and deadline for each.
Vercel's Four Repricings Since 2024: What the Pattern Predicts for Your Next Bill Shock — and What a Fixed-Price Box Actually Fixes
Vercel re-modeled its billing four times in eighteen months — granular meters, Fluid Compute, Active CPU, then credits. Here is the full timeline, what the 3-10 month cadence means for your budget, and a worked comparison against a flat-rate Hetzner box where egress variance is zero.
Ingress-NGINX Retired in March 2026 — Here's Exactly What Ingress2Gateway Migrates, and What It Doesn't
Ingress-NGINX officially retired in March 2026. Here's the annotation-by-annotation breakdown of what Ingress2Gateway migrates cleanly to Gateway API, what it can't touch, and why the gaps are riskier for a multi-tenant fleet than a single app.
Vercel's Four Repricings Since 2024: A Cost Trajectory Against Render, Railway, and Fly.io
Vercel has rewritten its pricing model four times since 2024 — bandwidth, compute billing, CPU units, and seats. A dated timeline of every change, lined up against what Render, Railway, and Fly.io did in the same window.
Dokploy and Coolify Stopped Calling Themselves 'Heroku Alternatives.' Here's What That Actually Means
Dokploy and Coolify used to pitch themselves as Heroku replacements. In 2026 both lead with Vercel and Netlify instead — a rebrand backed by real pricing math, GitHub star counts, and a feature gap that says a lot about who's actually migrating.