1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Buildpacks RFC 329 Would Make `web_worker` an Illegal Process Type — and That's the Point
Buildpacks RFC 329 would restrict process types to lowercase DNS labels, outlawing underscores, periods, and uppercase letters. Here is the exact rule, why the rejected 253-character hostname alternative lost, and what the migration costs buildpack authors and platforms.
cert-manager vs Gardener vs certctl: What Tenant TLS Really Costs at 10, 100, and 1,000 Custom Domains
A head-to-head comparison of cert-manager, Gardener cert-management, and certctl for per-tenant custom-domain TLS, with the rate-limit math and renewal checklist for fleets from 10 to 1,000 domains.
The 2026 CI Runner Market in One Table: When a $50 Hetzner Box Beats Every Meter
GitHub's 2026 price cuts, Avrea's July benchmarks, and ci-cost's eight-vendor pricing put the CI-runner market into one legible table. A worked build-vs-buy sheet with crossover points showing when owned Hetzner builders beat metered vendors — and where metered GPUs still win.
Cloudflare Deprecated McpAgent: What a Stateless MCP Handler Buys (and Costs) a Deploy-From-Chat Server
Cloudflare's Agents SDK v0.20.0 deprecated McpAgent in favor of a stateless createMcpHandler, tracking MCP spec 2026-07-28. Here is what dropping the per-session Durable Object buys, where multi-step deploy state moves instead, and how to migrate without breaking older clients.
Firecracker Is the Easy 5%: What Self-Hosting an E2B-Style Agent Sandbox Really Operates
E2B's enterprise pitch admits the microVM is the easy part. An eight-piece control-plane inventory plus a hosted-vs-self-hosted cost comparison shows what running agent sandboxes yourself actually operates.
Ephemeral Preview Environments Without a SaaS Bill: Namespace-per-PR on Owned Hardware
Full-stack PR previews cost a typical 8-developer team about $99 a month on Render's cheapest seats — or roughly $0 marginal on an already-paid Hetzner box. A line-by-line cost comparison plus the ArgoCD namespace-per-PR wiring and TTL teardown discipline that make previews a default instead of a line item.
Talos vs Flatcar in 2026: Picking the Immutable OS Under Your CAPH Fleet
Talos Linux ships Kubernetes in an 80 MB API-only image with no SSH; Flatcar pairs familiar Linux with automatic A/B updates proven on 20,000 Adobe nodes. A head-to-head on provisioning, updates, 3am debugging, and governance — with a verdict for small CAPH fleets on Hetzner.
Flatcar Brings Omaha-Style Auto-Updates Into CNCF Custody: What A-B Partition Rollouts With Automatic Reboots Mean for Unattended Node Updates Across a Hetzner Fleet
Flatcar Container Linux entered the CNCF incubator with Adobe running 20,000 nodes on it. What its Omaha-driven A-B auto-updates change for Cluster-API fleets on Hetzner — and the channel pins plus reboot coordination that make unattended node updates safe.
Flox's $25M Bet That Reproducible Environments Are Infrastructure: What It Means for the Git-Push Build Contract
Flox raised $25M to sell Nix-powered reproducible environments as enterprise infrastructure. What environment-as-artifact changes for git-push PaaS builds — bit-for-bit failure repro, per-repo toolchain pins — and where it just moves builder maintenance onto tenants.