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Kamal 2.0's kamal-proxy: How Thin Can a Production PaaS Get Before It Needs Kubernetes?
Kamal 2.0's kamal-proxy runs HEY and Basecamp on nothing but Docker and a YAML file. Here's exactly what's in that box, where its five structural gaps are, and which Cluster API mechanism closes each one.
Kubernetes' New Node Readiness Controller Closes the 'Pod Scheduled Before the Node Actually Works' Gap
None of CCM, CNI, or CSI natively report a Node Condition NRR can gate on — a worked example wires three NodeReadinessRule manifests into a Hetzner bare-metal bootstrap sequence anyway, and shows why managed EKS/GKE node pools never surface this bug in the first place.
Hetzner's Singapore Region Isn't a 2026 Launch — It's a 2026 Repricing: What APAC Self-Hosting Actually Costs
Hetzner's Singapore region launched in 2024, not 2026 — what changed this year is price, not availability. A line-by-line look at the 2026 repricing, the feature gaps versus the EU baseline, and whether Cluster API actually reaches ap-southeast.
Hetzner Killed the `datacenter` Field on Schedule. CAPH's Provider Code Survived — Its Vendored SDK Didn't Keep Up
Hetzner removed the datacenter field from its Server and Primary IP API on July 1, 2026. A code audit of Cluster API Provider Hetzner found its own logic was never at risk, but its vendored Go client is stuck on a release from before the fix, and the dependency bump has sat in a stalled, CI-failing pull request since June.
We Took the $828/Year Heroku-to-Render Rails Migration One Hop Further: What Self-Hosted on Hetzner Actually Costs
A developer saved $828/year moving a Rails app from Heroku to Render. We took the same web/worker/Postgres/Redis topology one hop further onto owned Hetzner hardware — real numbers, including the June 2026 Hetzner price hike that complicates the math.
Harbor's Garbage Collection Doesn't Block Your Registry Anymore — So What's the Real Cost Zot Is Actually Solving?
Harbor's registry hasn't gone read-only during garbage collection since 2020 — the real cost of running it against a build-per-deploy pipeline is worker-bound reclaim lag, and here's what Zot's inline GC actually trades for it.
Haloy Cuts the Registry Out of the Deploy Path Entirely — Here's What That Actually Buys You
Haloy builds your Docker image locally, uploads only the changed layers straight to your server, and skips Docker Hub or GHCR entirely — here's exactly how that differs from Kamal and Dokku's registry-dependent deploy paths, and what it does and doesn't change for a Kubernetes-based fleet.
GitHub Codespaces at $0.36/Core-Hour: What a 5-Dev Team's Quarterly Bill Really Looks Like Against Owning the Box
A worked quarterly cost comparison of GitHub Codespaces against a self-hosted Coder/Hetzner devcontainer stack for a 5-developer team — including the ops-labor line most comparisons leave out.
Why Forgejo, Not Gitea, Is 2026's Default Self-Hosted Git Pick
In October 2022, Gitea's domain and trademark moved to a for-profit company without a community vote. Four years and one GPL license split later, most 2026 self-hosting guides default to the fork that split off, not the original. Here's the governance timeline, the honest feature tradeoffs, and what it means for a git-push PaaS picking a source-of-truth.
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