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Your Kubernetes Install Doesn't Have a Finish Line — And More Docs Won't Give It One
·Dora Noda·9 min

Your Kubernetes Install Doesn't Have a Finish Line — And More Docs Won't Give It One

Why self-hosted Kubernetes installs for AI platforms stall for weeks, and why owning the node fleet with Cluster API fixes what better documentation can't.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Kubernetes 1.35 Killed the CPU Restart Tax. Memory Still Pays It.
·Dora Noda·9 min

Kubernetes 1.35 Killed the CPU Restart Tax. Memory Still Pays It.

Kubernetes 1.35 made CPU resizes truly restart-free, but memory resizes still restart the container by default. Here's the resizePolicy mechanics, the real constraints, and how a self-hosted PaaS should wire this into its tenant plan-upgrade flow.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Lagoon Outlived Its Mirantis Acquisition: What a Drupal-Born Kubernetes PaaS Still Gets Right
·Dora Noda·9 min

Lagoon Outlived Its Mirantis Acquisition: What a Drupal-Born Kubernetes PaaS Still Gets Right

Lagoon, the Drupal-born Kubernetes PaaS Mirantis acquired in 2022, still automates per-branch config-imports and database provisioning that Coolify, Dokploy, Kubero, and Canine haven't fully matched — a concrete look at the mechanism and what a general-purpose platform has to build to catch up.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
LiteLLM's Agent Platform Fixes Session Amnesia With One Postgres Table, Not a New Kubernetes Primitive
·Dora Noda·9 min

LiteLLM's Agent Platform Fixes Session Amnesia With One Postgres Table, Not a New Kubernetes Primitive

BerriAI's alpha-stage LiteLLM Agent Platform keeps an AI agent's session alive through a pod restart by storing state in Postgres instead of the sandbox itself — here's the actual mechanism, how it stacks up against E2B, Daytona, and Modal, and what it means for any MCP server with real deploy authority.

self-hosting
PaaS
AI agents
infrastructure
+1
Manufact Raised $6.3M to Be 'Vercel for MCP Servers' — Here's Exactly What a Generic Git-Push PaaS Doesn't Give You
·Dora Noda·10 min

Manufact Raised $6.3M to Be 'Vercel for MCP Servers' — Here's Exactly What a Generic Git-Push PaaS Doesn't Give You

Manufact raised $6.3M to build a hosted cloud purpose-built for MCP servers. Here's the actual pricing, the actual feature list, and what deploying the same MCP server on a generic git-push PaaS gets you instead.

Model Context Protocol
AI
self-hosting
PaaS
MCP Goes Stateless on July 28: Why Model Context Protocol Servers Can Finally Run Behind a Plain Kubernetes Load Balancer
·Dora Noda·9 min

MCP Goes Stateless on July 28: Why Model Context Protocol Servers Can Finally Run Behind a Plain Kubernetes Load Balancer

MCP's July 28, 2026 spec removes Mcp-Session-Id and the initialize handshake, so any request can land on any server instance — here's the before/after Kubernetes architecture and what it unlocks for an MCP server with deploy authority.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
Model Context Protocol
+1
Neon's Instant Postgres Branches Need Three Services CNPG Doesn't Have — What Self-Hosting Them on Kubernetes Actually Takes
·Dora Noda·8 min

Neon's Instant Postgres Branches Need Three Services CNPG Doesn't Have — What Self-Hosting Them on Kubernetes Actually Takes

CloudNativePG, Zalando, and StackGres all run HA Postgres on Kubernetes — none of them can branch a database in under a second. Neon can, because it isn't a Postgres operator at all. Here's the architecture that trick requires, and what standing it up yourself on Kubernetes actually involves today.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
NixOS as a Cluster API Node Image: What It Buys and Costs Against Talos Linux
·Dora Noda·8 min

NixOS as a Cluster API Node Image: What It Buys and Costs Against Talos Linux

NixOS can replace the Ubuntu base under a Cluster API Hetzner fleet with a single reproducible flake — but unlike Talos it ships no dedicated CAPI provider and no hardening by default. Here's the actual wiring and the honest trade-off.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Northflank Now Runs 16 Managed Regions, Including Melbourne and Tokyo — What It Would Take a CAPH Fleet to Say the Same
·Dora Noda·8 min

Northflank Now Runs 16 Managed Regions, Including Melbourne and Tokyo — What It Would Take a CAPH Fleet to Say the Same

Northflank now runs 16 managed regions including Melbourne and Tokyo at a flat $0.06/GB. A Hetzner-based fleet has six, none in Japan or Australia — here's the real cost and infrastructure gap behind that difference.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
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