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SUSE Put MCP Across Its Whole Portfolio: What a Vendor-Blessed Agent-to-Infra Interface Means for Your PaaS's Own MCP Server
SUSE embedded MCP servers across Rancher Prime and Multi-Linux Manager with AWS, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok aboard. Here is what a vendor-blessed agent-to-infra interface validates for a PaaS agent API, where its patch-and-monitor scope stops short of the git-push deploy surface, and a checklist for building that surface yourself.
Stop Copying Registry Passwords Into Every Namespace: Kubernetes 1.34 ServiceAccount Image Pulls in Practice
Kubernetes 1.34's beta ServiceAccount token flow replaces per-namespace imagePullSecrets with short-lived, workload-bound pull credentials — how to wire the registry side, bind ServiceAccounts, handle rotation, and test the failure modes before deleting static secrets.
Unlimited Apps, One Flat Bill: What PocketBaseCloud's $25 Show HN Pitch Reveals About Per-Project Pricing
PocketBaseCloud's Show HN offers unlimited small apps on a $25 flat slice — we work the N-app math against Supabase per-project metering, Vercel usage billing, and a $6 self-hosted box.
CNCF Says MCP Gateways Belong in the Platform. Here's What That Actually Requires
MCP gateways are now a CNCF Platform Engineering 2.0 pillar. Here's what a gateway does that an ad-hoc MCP server doesn't — OAuth 2.1 auth, per-caller rate limits, deny-by-default tool scoping, poisoning detection — and how much of it a self-hosted PaaS control plane already absorbs.
Mimir vs Cortex vs Thanos: Picking the Multi-Tenant Metrics Backend for a PaaS That Bills by Usage
Mimir, Cortex, and Thanos compared as the multi-tenant metrics backend for a self-hosted PaaS that bills by usage — per-tenant cardinality isolation, cost attribution for chargeback, and owned-capacity footprint, with a decision table.
Only LLM Spans Should Cost Money: Span-Class-Aware Billing for Agent Observability
Span-class-aware metering prices LLM spans while tracing tool calls free — the worked cost math, which vendors already do it, and an OTel Collector recipe for self-hosted agent observability.
The Fly-Plus-Neon Stack: What an 8,700 km Gap Between App and Database Really Costs
A real 2026 production stack ran Fly.io compute in Johannesburg against Neon Postgres in Frankfurt. We total both bills, budget the 150 ms latency floor, and price the consolidated alternative.
Weaveworks Died. Flux Didn't: The Community-Run GitOps Comeback vs Argo CD's Hub-and-Spoke
Two years after Weaveworks shut down, Flux CD ships v2.9.5 backed by Microsoft, GitLab, and ControlPlane — we audit the comeback evidence and compare its toolkit model against Argo CD's hub-and-spoke for self-hosted platforms.
Every PaaS Ships an MCP Server Now: Dokploy vs. Railway in the Agent-Interface Race
Dokploy mirrors all 508 API endpoints as MCP tools while Railway curates ten hosted tools plus a TypeScript deploy-your-own guide — an operation-by-operation comparison across deploy, logs, env, and rollback, and the nine-item checklist a self-hosted Render-compatible MCP surface must clear.
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