1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
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.
Coolify vs CapRover for Solo Devs: What the Polish Verdict Gets Right — and the Second-Machine Ceiling Neither Lifts
SoloDevStack scored Coolify 9/10 and CapRover 7/10 on polish. A claim-by-claim audit confirms the verdict for week one — then runs the second-machine checklist both panels fail, and names what replaces 'which panel' once one box is not enough.
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.
The Dutch Government Is Building a Microsoft Alternative on NixOS: What National-Scale Self-Hosting Signals for Teams Who Own Their Stack
The Dutch government's DAWO project is building a Microsoft-independent workplace on NixOS — here is what the mandate, pilots, and technology amount to, and what 'the whole system is declared in config' means for a self-hosted PaaS fleet choosing between NixOS and Talos for its node images.
What an E2B-Style Sandbox Actually Needs Before an Agent Touches Production
Sandbox isolation is a solved purchase — E2B, Daytona, and Modal all sell it. The pre-deploy gate around execution (substrate parity, artifact promotion, teardown-on-reject, credential scoping, and a tested-vs-shipped audit trail) is the harder infrastructure you still have to build, priced here against September 2026 vendor primitives.
External Secrets Operator Won the Kubernetes Secrets War: A Self-Hosted PaaS Playbook
ESO passed 45M downloads and GA'd its v1 APIs, making it the default sync layer between external secret stores and Kubernetes. Here is the concrete buy-vs-cost case for adopting it as a fleet add-on — tenant-scoped stores, rotation semantics, and what it still doesn't solve.
Fly.io 18 Regions vs Render 5 vs Railway 4: A Multi-Region Exit Checklist for Leaving Edge Deployment for Owned Hardware
Fly.io runs 18 regions, Render pins each service to one of 5, Railway to one of 4 Metal regions — a step-by-step checklist for deciding which footprint your users actually need and moving the rest to owned hardware.
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.
The Heroku Exit Playbook's Missing Half: Pipelines and Review Apps on Machines You Own
The Heroku exit playbook moved apps, add-ons, and data — but release process stayed behind. A concrete mapping of Pipelines promotion and Review Apps onto Kargo, GitHub Actions environments, and per-PR namespaces, with the honest cost of replicating automatic per-PR databases.