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Stop Copying Registry Passwords Into Every Namespace: Kubernetes 1.34 ServiceAccount Image Pulls in Practice
·Dora Noda·12 min

Stop Copying Registry Passwords Into Every Namespace: Kubernetes 1.34 ServiceAccount Image Pulls in Practice

Kubernetes 1.34's beta ServiceAccount token flow replaces per-namespace imagePullSecrets with short-lived, workload-bound pull credentials — how to wire the registry side, bind ServiceAccounts, handle rotation, and test the failure modes before deleting static secrets.

Kubernetes
security
self-hosting
PaaS
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Sonobuoy Conformance as a Fleet Gate: Don't Schedule Tenants on an Unproven Node
·Dora Noda·9 min

Sonobuoy Conformance as a Fleet Gate: Don't Schedule Tenants on an Unproven Node

A two-tier Sonobuoy gate for CAPH-managed Hetzner fleets: taint every new machine at join, prove it with a focused non-disruptive conformance slice, and reserve full certified-conformance for template promotion on a canary cluster.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
tutorial
SUSE Put MCP Across Its Whole Portfolio: What a Vendor-Blessed Agent-to-Infra Interface Means for Your PaaS's Own MCP Server
·Dora Noda·12 min

SUSE Put MCP Across Its Whole Portfolio: What a Vendor-Blessed Agent-to-Infra Interface Means for Your PaaS's Own MCP Server

SUSE embedded MCP servers across Rancher Prime and Multi-Linux Manager with AWS, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok aboard. Here is what a vendor-blessed agent-to-infra interface validates for a PaaS agent API, where its patch-and-monitor scope stops short of the git-push deploy surface, and a checklist for building that surface yourself.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
Kubernetes
PaaS
Coolify v4 Is a Rolling Beta: What Pinning the Platform Underneath Your Apps Actually Requires
·Dora Noda·8 min

Coolify v4 Is a Rolling Beta: What Pinning the Platform Underneath Your Apps Actually Requires

Coolify v4.3.1 was 'latest patched' on August 12 and four releases behind by August 16 — inside a CVE cluster with RCE to host root. How to run a rolling-beta PaaS panel safely: version-pinned installs, a staging canary box, and advisory-feed monitoring.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
guide
Buildpacks Is Cutting Kaniko Out of Your git-push Pipeline
·Dora Noda·9 min

Buildpacks Is Cutting Kaniko Out of Your git-push Pipeline

Cloud Native Buildpacks compiles kaniko's executor into the lifecycle binary behind every git-push build — and the plan to cut it out runs through a fork-hop, grype reachability triage, and a separate extender binary. What the extraction means for your builder's CVE surface and provenance story.

security
self-hosting
PaaS
engineering
Depot Raised $10M to Kill Slow Builds: What It Still Sells a Team That Owns Its Machines
·Dora Noda·10 min

Depot Raised $10M to Kill Slow Builds: What It Still Sells a Team That Owns Its Machines

Depot's $10M Series A and Depot CI launch, priced head-to-head against owned Hetzner builders: a breakeven table across build volumes, what the meter still buys, and the one spiky workload where metered wins.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
developer tools
Should You Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? Where the Single-Host Ceiling Actually Sits
·Dora Noda·13 min

Should You Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? Where the Single-Host Ceiling Actually Sits

A May 2026 Hacker News thread's verdict on Docker Compose in production, turned into a three-gap accounting: which of zero-downtime deploys, self-healing, and multi-host have cheap single-host fixes, where the real ceiling sits, and what a Cluster-API-managed fleet closes.

self-hosting
PaaS
migration
engineering
E2B vs Modal vs Daytona in 2026: What Agent Sandboxes Get Right That Agent-Operated Deploys Still Don't
·Dora Noda·10 min

E2B vs Modal vs Daytona in 2026: What Agent Sandboxes Get Right That Agent-Operated Deploys Still Don't

E2B and Daytona charge $0.0504/vCPU-hour for agent sandboxes while Modal charges about 40% more — but none of them hands an agent a persistent HTTPS URL with a custom domain, TLS, and rollback. A 2026 three-way comparison plus the deploy gap a PaaS still has to close.

AI agents
PaaS
cost-optimization
self-hosting
Your PaaS Now Owns Your If-Statements: Railway's Feature Flags vs Self-Hosted Unleash and Flagsmith
·Dora Noda·10 min

Your PaaS Now Owns Your If-Statements: Railway's Feature Flags vs Self-Hosted Unleash and Flagsmith

Railway's July 2026 feature flags bundle flag state into the PaaS — run the lock-in test and the real monthly math against self-hosted Unleash, Flagsmith, and flag SaaS.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
SaaS
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