1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Heroku Is Frozen: What the 2026 Exit Guides Actually Recommend (and the Cost Row None of Them Prices)
Heroku entered sustaining mode in February 2026 with no new features and no new Enterprise contracts. A read across the 2026 exit guides maps Render, Railway, Fly.io, and self-hosting to the Heroku workload each fits, plus the priced comparison none of them shows: a typical 190-dollar-a-month dyno topology against metered rivals and a flat-rate box.
Hoplite and the Cloud Coding-Agent Wave: What You're Really Renting When Your Agent Setup Moves Off Your Laptop
Hoplite moves your coding-agent setup — sessions, memories, MCP servers — onto rented cloud sandboxes for $99/seat. A bundle inventory, the lock-in shape, worked rent-vs-own math at 1/5/20 developers, and the five-component self-hosted equivalent.
Kagent Brings CRD-Native AI Agents to Kubernetes: What It Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
Kagent turns AI agents into Kubernetes objects you version, roll out, and inspect with kubectl. Here is what the Agent CRD, MCP tool servers, and A2A teams replace on a self-hosted PaaS roadmap — and where the platform still owns the problem.
KEDA 2.20's Event-RBAC Migration and Two Panic Fixes: What Breaks When Scale-to-Zero Runs Through One Controller
KEDA 2.20 moved event recording to events.k8s.io but dropped the legacy permission its own client library still needed, then shipped two panic fixes for the operator that owns scale-to-zero. A blast-radius breakdown of each failure and an upgrade checklist for fleets you run yourself.
Korifi Brings cf Push to Kubernetes: The Forgotten Git-Push PaaS, Compared
Korifi puts Cloud Foundry's cf push on Kubernetes with buildpack staging and a service-broker Marketplace — here is how it stacks up against Dokku, Coolify, CapRover, and Render-compatible layers, and which teams should shortlist the industry's most battle-tested git-push UX.
Kubernetes v1.37 Puts No-Exec Volumes in the Pod Spec: What a PaaS Can Delete From OPA
Kubernetes v1.37 adds noexec bind-mount flags and emptyDir permission modes to the Pod spec. Here is what moves from OPA policy to kernel enforcement, what stays in the policy engine, and the five rollout gotchas.
Maintenant Monitors Docker, Kubernetes, and Uptime From One Go Binary: What No PromQL and No Exporters Actually Costs
Maintenant packs Docker, Kubernetes, uptime, TLS, cron, logs, and CVE monitoring into one Go binary idling under 30MB of RAM. Here is which parts of the ten-component Prometheus stack it genuinely replaces — and the retention, query, and dashboard costs where the deal ends.
MCP Joins the Linux Foundation: What Neutral Governance and Server Cards Mean for Shipping a Deploy Server Today
MCP is now neutral Linux Foundation infrastructure with 97M monthly SDK downloads — here is why that plus the stateless 2026-07-28 spec means you should ship your deploy-from-chat MCP server now, and treat Server Cards as a distribution upgrade, not a blocker.
MCP Multi-Round Trips: Human Approval Gates for Agent-Initiated Production Deploys
MCP's July 2026 release lets a server pause mid-call and ask a human to approve the exact plan before acting. Here is the four-step deploy gate — plan, digest-bound approval, single-use execution, auditable receipt — that replaces standing agent permission.