640 posts tagged with "Kubernetes"
Container orchestration, Cluster API, and self-hosted control planes
OVHcloud's Six-Day Outage: What a Multi-Day Recovery Window Actually Costs a Tenant
OVHcloud's web hosting incident took 5 days 18 hours to fully mitigate in H1 2026 — the longest web hosting window IncidentHub tracked in six months. A worked accounting of what 138 hours costs a tenant with no failover, why SLA credits don't cover it, and what the same failure looks like when your fleet remediates itself in minutes.
Your Rented Control Plane Costs More Than Your Servers: What Qovery's $299–$2,099 Agentic Platform Fee Actually Buys
Qovery's $299–$2,099/month control-plane fee sits on top of your cloud bill — not instead of it. A line-by-line accounting of what the agentic platform buys, why agents don't consume seats but do consume deployment minutes, and when owning the fleet costs less than renting the plane that manages it.
51 Days to Fix Object Storage: What a Seven-Week Remediation Tells You About the Real Reliability Bar
Scaleway's AMS object storage incident took 33 to 51 days to fully remediate region by region in H1 2026 — no data loss, but seven weeks where the managed SLA was the thing that was broken.
Gateway API 1.5 Is GA and Ingress-NGINX Is Dead — Your Migration Inventory for a Fleet That Routes Every Tenant Domain
Gateway API 1.5 promoted six features to GA on February 27, 2026 — the same quarter ingress-nginx shipped its final release. A concrete annotation-by-annotation inventory of what ingress2gateway translates cleanly, what needs hand-authoring, and why a botched migration on a PaaS that routes hundreds of tenant domains is fleet-wide breakage.
Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 repricing hit CPX and CCX with 113-175% hikes while CAX rose only 30%. A line-by-line cost-per-vCPU recompute, fleet math that turns the gap into thousands per year, and which workloads move to ARM without a rebuild.
Hetzner's Second Price Hike of 2026: Why Your CCX Fleet Just Got 169% More Expensive
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 hike tripled CCX and CPX while CX and CAX rose 35%. A line-by-line recompute of what a CAPH fleet costs on the wrong family versus the right one — and how to fix your MachineDeployment default.
Hetzner at €3.79 vs OVHcloud at $9.99 vs DigitalOcean at $24: What a 6x Price Gap Still Buys After Three 2026 Price Hikes
February's viral table priced the same 2 vCPU/4 GB box at €3.79 on Hetzner, $9.99 on OVHcloud and $24 on DigitalOcean. After Hetzner's April and June hikes and OVHcloud's 9-11% increase, the gap did not close — bandwidth math made it wider.
Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru': Three GA Graduations Your Small Fleet Actually Needs
Kubernetes 1.36 ships 70 enhancements with 18 graduating to Stable. Only three change day-to-day ops for a modest Hetzner-backed fleet: User Namespaces, MutatingAdmissionPolicy, and Volume Group Snapshots — with YAML, constraints, and the 15 you can safely defer.
Northflank's No-Seat-Fee BYOC Still Has Two Bills: What a Rented Control Plane Costs Against One Hetzner Invoice
Northflank charges no seat fee — just $0.01667/vCPU-hour and $0.00833/GB-hour — but BYOC still means two bills: your cloud provider plus a flat platform fee per vCPU. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes against a single Hetzner CX/CPX invoice, with seat-count and utilization sensitivity.