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One ClusterProfile vs One Flux per Cluster: What Sveltos v1.13 Changes About Fleet Add-On Delivery
·Dora Noda·11 min

One ClusterProfile vs One Flux per Cluster: What Sveltos v1.13 Changes About Fleet Add-On Delivery

Sveltos delivers fleet add-ons from one management cluster to auto-discovered Cluster API clusters, replacing one Flux installation per workload cluster. A concrete before/after comparison — targeting, rollouts, drift, dry runs — plus what v1.13's Helm-update visibility adds and where Sveltos stops.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
+1
Coolify v4 Gets a Terraform Provider: The Dashboard Is Now an API You Can Commit
·Dora Noda·7 min

Coolify v4 Gets a Terraform Provider: The Dashboard Is Now an API You Can Commit

A community provider brings 30 Terraform/OpenTofu resources to Coolify v4, from applications and databases to backups and cloud servers. Here is what it covers, what a working setup looks like, and where panel-as-code stops short of fleet-as-code.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
developer tools
Dokploy Restarts the Container, Coolify Rebuilds It: What 30-120 Second Rebuilds Cost a Production Deploy Loop
·Dora Noda·9 min

Dokploy Restarts the Container, Coolify Rebuilds It: What 30-120 Second Rebuilds Cost a Production Deploy Loop

A head-to-head on identical Hetzner boxes found Dokploy restarts the existing image in seconds while Coolify v4.0 sometimes triggers a 30–120 second full rebuild on config edits. Here is what each button actually does, the rotation math across ten services, and the config-edit fast path every git-push PaaS should ship.

PaaS
self-hosting
cost-optimization
developer tools
E2B vs Modal vs Daytona vs Fly Machines: The Agent Sandbox Market in 2026
·Dora Noda·9 min

E2B vs Modal vs Daytona vs Fly Machines: The Agent Sandbox Market in 2026

E2B, Modal, Daytona, and Fly Machines compete to run your agent's code — compared on isolation, cold start, GPUs, and price, plus why a sandbox is no substitute for a deploy platform.

AI agents
developer tools
self-hosting
PaaS
Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE in 2026: Picking the Git Forge Behind Your Deploy Pipeline
·Dora Noda·11 min

Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE in 2026: Picking the Git Forge Behind Your Deploy Pipeline

Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab CE compared on RAM footprint, governance, CI runners, and cost — with a decision guide for teams picking the forge behind their deploy pipeline.

self-hosting
developer tools
migration
cost-optimization
Railway's dev.new Preview: The PaaS Is Coming for Your Laptop's Dev Environment
·Dora Noda·12 min

Railway's dev.new Preview: The PaaS Is Coming for Your Laptop's Dev Environment

Railway's dev.new preview and Cloud Agents beta move the inner dev loop onto hosted VMs. We work out the always-on per-developer bill, weigh latency, secrets, and lock-in, and sketch the self-hosted equivalent on machines you own.

PaaS
self-hosting
developer tools
cost-optimization
+1
The Agent Wrote the Release Notes. Next It Ships the Release: What ReleasePad's Changelog MCP Server Teaches Deploy-Tool Design
·Dora Noda·10 min

The Agent Wrote the Release Notes. Next It Ships the Release: What ReleasePad's Changelog MCP Server Teaches Deploy-Tool Design

ReleasePad's September 2026 MCP server lets agents draft, publish, and measure changelogs with drafts-by-default and read-only scopes. Its tool catalog is a worked template for deploy-server design — separate the point of no return, make reads plentiful, and enforce gates server-side.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
developer tools
security
Render Lets an Async Cloud Agent Debug Your Failed Builds: What the Jules Integration Means for the Git-Push Build Loop
·Dora Noda·12 min

Render Lets an Async Cloud Agent Debug Your Failed Builds: What the Jules Integration Means for the Git-Push Build Loop

Render's Jules integration hands failed builds to an async coding agent that pulls logs, pushes fixes, and retriggers the build. Here is which failures it resolves unsupervised, how it changes time-to-green, and what a self-hosted builder needs to match the loop.

AI agents
PaaS
developer tools
self-hosting
Windows Just Shipped Its Own Docker Desktop Bypass: What wslc Means for Git-Push Deploys
·Dora Noda·8 min

Windows Just Shipped Its Own Docker Desktop Bypass: What wslc Means for Git-Push Deploys

Microsoft's WSL Containers preview in WSL 2.9.3 gives Windows 11 a built-in OCI container runtime — wslc.exe — with Docker-like commands, twice-as-fast virtiofs file access, and VPN-friendly networking. Here is the license-free build-locally-push-to-PaaS loop and the per-seat math it deletes.

PaaS
self-hosting
cost-optimization
developer tools
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