1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Ingress-NGINX Is Retired — Your Gateway API Migration Can No Longer Wait
Ingress-nginx retired in March 2026 with no more security patches. A concrete migration map from Ingress annotations to Gateway, HTTPRoute, and GatewayClass — what ingress2gateway converts, what it skips, and where Gateway API v1.5 is genuinely better.
kube-hetzner Just Made Leap Micro the Default Node OS: What the Switch Off MicroOS Means for Your Hetzner Cluster
kube-hetzner's v3 line boots Leap Micro on every new nodepool while existing MicroOS nodes stay put. What the switch means, why fixed-point releases beat rolling ones for production nodes, and how Leap Micro compares to Talos.
No Terraform Required: KubeOne 1.13's One-Manifest Hetzner Control Planes vs Cluster API
KubeOne 1.13 provisions Hetzner control-plane VMs and the API load balancer straight from one manifest — no Terraform state, no output plumbing. Here is what the beta removes, what it still lacks next to Cluster API, and which operator each tool fits.
LangGraph Platform Is GA: Do Your Agents Need a Per-Node Runtime, or Just a Container?
LangGraph Platform's GA brings per-node agent billing to production. We work out the cost math at typical volumes, separate the free primitives from the metered ones, and give a rule for when to pay versus shipping a container.
45-Day Certificates Are Here: What Let's Encrypt's Shrinking Validity Window Demands From Your Renewal Automation
Let's Encrypt now issues 45-day certificates, and 64-day defaults land in February 2027. Here is the full timeline, the renewal-window math, and a checklist to harden ACME automation before the manual-fix window disappears.
Managed Control Plane vs Free Panel vs Hosted PaaS: What Deploynix's $12 Middle Ground Really Costs
A three-service stack with Postgres and Redis runs about $6/month on a self-run Coolify panel, $18 with Deploynix's $12 managed control plane, and $38 on Render — until you price the pager hours. A worked cost-plus-failure-mode comparison across Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Deploynix, Render, and Railway.
The 2026 PaaS Pricing Shake-Up in One Ledger: Render, Heroku, Railway, Fly.io, and Hetzner Priced on the Same Workload
Render killed per-seat pricing, Heroku froze, Fly.io added billing lines, and Hetzner raised cloud prices up to 3x — one worked ledger prices the same web-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack on all five vendors' September 2026 price lists, from ~$50 self-hosted to ~$122 on Railway.
Railpack Is No Longer Just Railway's Builder: What the 2026 Third-Party Ecosystem Proves for Self-Hosted Build Pipelines
Seven independent projects now build on Railpack, from Pier and Dokku to a Coolify beta and a GitHub Action. What real migrations report, what the 4 GB and 40 GB build-box floor costs, and when a self-hosted pipeline should switch.
Render's $1,500 Agent Tier vs $100 of Owned Iron: Pricing 96 GB Per vCPU-GB
Render's August 26 overhaul added a 12-CPU/96 GB agent-platform tier at $1,500/month. A per-vCPU-GB recompute against matched Hetzner dedicated capacity lands at a 15–20x multiple — plus where memory-heavy agent loops earn the ratio and where they pay idle-RAM premium.