1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Self-Hosted vLLM on Kubernetes: What Owning Your Inference Layer Actually Costs
CNCF's July 2026 vLLM walkthrough builds self-hosted inference in three Kubernetes resources. A worked breakeven — 10 to 15M tokens a day against Sonnet 5 on a €1,199/month GPU box — plus the four production gaps the lab skips and the five cases where owning the layer wins.
Boring Infrastructure on Purpose: What Uncloud's Control-Plane-Free Clustering Keeps — and What It Quietly Gives Up
Uncloud clusters Docker hosts across cloud VMs and bare metal with no control plane and no quorum — 5,200+ stars and a university moving 300+ sites onto it. A concrete keeps-versus-gives-up trade-off table, a dead-machine walkthrough, and why the verdict flips once AI agents operate the fleet.
Woodpecker CI's 130MB Control Plane vs a 7GB GitHub Runner: What Your PaaS Build Step Really Costs on a €3.79 Hetzner Box
A Woodpecker server and agent idle at about 130MB of RAM while GitHub's standard runner is a 2-core, 7GB VM. We budget both stacks megabyte-by-megabyte on a €3.79 Hetzner CX22 and work out when owning your build fleet beats paying per-minute Actions overage.
Quarter of the Bill, Two-Thirds of the Network: What a Six-Cloud Kubernetes Benchmark Means for Your Hetzner Node Pool
Ankra AI's August 2026 benchmark ran identical Kubernetes workloads on six clouds: Hetzner costs a quarter of AWS/GCP with 10x the disk, but gives up two-thirds of the network. A fleet operator's guide to turning those numbers into a CAPH node-pool design.
One Script, Five Hours, Three Dead Layers: What Azure's West US Outage Reveals About the Shared Fate Inside Every Managed Region
On July 23, 2026, a maintenance-automation bug deleted network routes across Azure West US for five hours, taking down AKS, managed Postgres, and ingress together. Why zone redundancy couldn't help, what multi-region survival actually costs, and what owned hardware decouples.
Buildpacks RFC 331: Getting the Extend Phase Off Vendored Kaniko
A Dockerfile hides inside every Dockerfile-free buildpack build — applied by a kaniko copy baked into the lifecycle image. RFC 331 would pull the extender out behind a configurable URI; Chainguard's kaniko fork bought time but didn't fix the coupling. The before/after table and the six-item operator checklist.
Cloudflare's Agents Week 2026 Is a Requirements Doc for Agent Infrastructure: A Self-Hosted Reading
Cloudflare's August 2026 Agents Week maps, day by day, everything AI agents need from infrastructure — per-task computers, machine-readable APIs, per-agent identity, and a way to pay. Each item translated into what it takes to run it on machines you own, with an honest ledger of what shipped versus what is still beta.
One Token, Seven Tools, Total Access: What a Czech Community's Coolify MCP Bridge Teaches About Agent-Operated Self-Hosting
A Czech community's 200-line MCP bridge lets AI agents operate Coolify apps from AnythingLLM behind a single bearer token, no permission model, and TLS verification off. A code-level inventory of its seven tools and the guardrail checklist that separates homelab experiments from tenant-ready agent platforms.
Coolify v5's Multi-Server Bet: What the Most Popular Single-Box PaaS Hitting Its Ceiling Teaches About Cluster Orchestration
Coolify named multi-server scalability as v5's core feature — with no release date. A concrete accounting of what a second server buys you in v4 today, what v5 is actually building, and why the gap is a scheduler-shaped hole only cluster orchestration fills.