684 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
What Cloud Native Buildpacks' Convention Buys a Git-Push PaaS Over a Hand-Rolled Build Script — and the One Escape Hatch It Still Needs
Cloud Native Buildpacks trades a hand-rolled detect-and-build script for community-maintained language coverage, reproducible image digests, and built-in SBOMs — but a git-push PaaS still needs a Dockerfile escape hatch for the repos convention can't detect.
CNCF Says Cloud Native Already Runs AI. Here's What Actually Transfers to a Git-Push PaaS
CNCF says the same cloud-native primitives already run web apps and AI workloads. Here's exactly what transfers to a git-push PaaS today — GitOps, containers, observability — and what still doesn't: GPU scheduling, disaggregated serving, and multi-agent orchestration.
Docker Cancels Hub Pull-Rate Charges Outright: What Walking Back a Pricing Threat (Not Just Postponing It) Signals About Registry Cost Risk on Owned Hardware
Docker didn't just delay its Hub pull-consumption pricing again — it cancelled the plan outright in April 2025. Here's what that reversal actually changed, what rate-limit risk survived it untouched, and what a pull-through cache costs to run on owned hardware versus metered cloud infrastructure.
Docker Engine v29 Raised Its API Floor to 1.44 — Here's Exactly Who Survived
Docker Engine v29 raised its minimum client API version to 1.44 and instantly broke every self-hosted tool with an older version hardcoded. A tool-by-tool accounting of who fixed it, who didn't, and why the difference wasn't luck.
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.
Earthly Shut Down a Year Ago. Here's What Betting on a VC-Funded Build Tool Actually Costs
Earthly raised $8.6M, hit 12,000 GitHub stars, then shut down its cloud and open-source project within a year. A dated retrospective on what the arranged migration to Dagger actually cost users, and why picking commodity build specs over single-vendor DSLs is the real fix.
HAMi Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project: What Fractional GPU Sharing Actually Buys a Fleet With a Handful of Cards
HAMi just reached CNCF Incubating status, and its own case studies show why it matters: DaoCloud cut GPU costs roughly in half after adopting it. Here's the actual per-tenant cost math for fractional GPU sharing versus buying a whole card per AI-agent sandbox.
Heroku Retired Its Data Bridge Add-On. The 'Smooth' Migration Path Is the Real Warning.
Salesforce retired Heroku Data Bridge and even offered a migration path — but the path was entirely Salesforce's to design, schedule, and re-bill. Here's why a vendor-provided replacement still isn't the same as not being locked in, and a five-question framework for auditing your own bundled PaaS integrations before the next one hits.
Hetzner's 45-Hour ASH Load Balancer Outage: What a Managed LB Costs a Fleet That Doesn't Run Its Own
A Hetzner-managed Load Balancer in ASH went down for 45 hours on July 13, 2026, taking every healthy tenant behind it offline. Here's the actual blast-radius math, and what running kube-vip or MetalLB yourself instead would have cost and bought back.