509 posts tagged with "Kubernetes"
Container orchestration, Cluster API, and self-hosted control planes
UpCloud's €3 Starter Plans Undercut Post-Hike Hetzner: What a Second EU Provider Actually Buys Your Node Pool
UpCloud's €3 Starter plans land below Hetzner's twice-repriced entry tier in May 2026. A tabled price, region, and Cluster API readiness comparison of what a second Finnish-EU provider actually buys a fleet that runs on owned hardware.
Your Cloud Account, Their Control Plane: Why Edka's BYO-Hetzner Model Is Winning
Edka hit 437 points on HN spinning up production-ready Kubernetes on Hetzner in ~2 minutes inside your own account — you own the servers, the bill, and the exit. How the BYO-account pattern beats both closed PaaS and DIY, how it compares to Cluster API Provider Hetzner, and what trust actually requires before you hand over an API token.
Fly.io at $11M ARR With Zero Open Roles: How to Read a PaaS Vendor's Vital Signs Before You Bet Your Stack
Mid-2026 snapshots peg Fly.io around $11M ARR with no open roles while Render touts a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ YoY growth — and Fly's own plan deprecations plus new 2026 billing lines look like optimizing the base, not sprinting. A five-signal checklist for auditing any PaaS before you migrate, a scored walkthrough on Fly.io, and why the hedge isn't multi-cloud but a real exit path you can test.
Mooring Skipped the Orchestrator: Why a Typed YAML PaaS Still Hits a One-Machine Ceiling
Mooring ships a security-first, typed mooring.yaml control plane that owns your Compose file and handles HTTPS, monitoring, and self-healing — without Swarm or Kubernetes. What that model gets right on one machine, and the five things that concretely break the moment you need a second.
Railway Finally Shipped DNS Logs: What You Can Debug From a Dashboard vs What You Get From CoreDNS on Day One
Railway's July 24, 2026 changelog added DNS logs after years of opaque name-resolution failures. A side-by-side tour of debugging ndots, search-domain expansion, and stale service records on rented DNS visibility versus CoreDNS logs, metrics, and tcpdump on a cluster you own.
Railway's Access Groups Are Group RBAC Behind a SaaS UI: Here's the Same Boundary as Kubernetes YAML
Railway shipped Access Groups on August 14, 2026 — group-based RBAC for its hosted PaaS. A concrete mapping of the same boundary as Kubernetes RBAC, RoleBindings, and Gateway API policy on a control plane you own.
Hetzner Stops Selling Hardware Types and Starts Selling Generations: What CPX Gen2 and CX Gen3 Do to Your Machine Templates
Hetzner restructured its cloud catalog from hardware types to hardware generations in June 2026. A concrete look at what generation-named SKUs break in Cluster API machine templates and how to write templates that survive the next reshuffle.
ExternalDNS: The Controller That Turns Every Ingress Into a DNS Record (and What Breaks at Fleet Scale)
ExternalDNS watches Kubernetes Service, Ingress, and Gateway API objects and syncs DNS records to your provider automatically. A concrete walkthrough of the reconciliation loop, TXT ownership registry, rate-limit wiring, and fleet-scale pitfalls — and why you shouldn't hand-roll this.
Cloudflare OS Is Open Source — But Only Runs on Cloudflare: What That Means Compared to Apache-2.0 on Your Own Machines
Cloudflare OS open-sourced an agent workspace on August 5 that only deploys into a Cloudflare account — zero-access agents, Gatekeeper Workers, and Dynamic Workers with per-app SQLite. What that flavor of open actually controls next to an Apache-2.0 PaaS on machines you own.