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Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives

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CI Runner Pricing in 2026: Depot, Blacksmith, and the Cost of Reserving Your Own Build Capacity
·Dora Noda·8 min

CI Runner Pricing in 2026: Depot, Blacksmith, and the Cost of Reserving Your Own Build Capacity

A reproducible CI-runner cost model across 2, 8, and 20 concurrent jobs: current Depot and Blacksmith pricing beside the fixed cost of reserving self-hosted build nodes.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
Kubernetes
Gateway API 1.6 Gives Agent Sandboxes a Named Egress Target—Not an Egress Policy
·Dora Noda·10 min

Gateway API 1.6 Gives Agent Sandboxes a Named Egress Target—Not an Egress Policy

Gateway API 1.6's experimental XBackend can make an AI API destination reviewable. Here is the complete control stack required to turn that declaration into safe sandbox egress.

AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
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Karpenter on Bare Metal Is Not Magic: The Supply Chain Behind a NodeClaim
·Dora Noda·11 min

Karpenter on Bare Metal Is Not Magic: The Supply Chain Behind a NodeClaim

A NodeClaim can choose capacity; only an automatable machine supply can deliver it. Follow a realistic burst from pending Pod to Ready bare-metal worker.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
Platform Engineering 2.0 Has Five Good Ideas—and an Implementation Gap
·Dora Noda·10 min

Platform Engineering 2.0 Has Five Good Ideas—and an Implementation Gap

A practical readiness matrix for turning Platform Engineering 2.0’s AI, agent, FinOps, security, and composability pillars into operating designs a Kubernetes PaaS can verify.

AI
AI agents
Kubernetes
PaaS
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Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor
·Dora Noda·10 min

Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor

Porter bills requested CPU and RAM inside your cloud account, but a BYOC cluster still has a fixed cost. A three-way example shows where granular requests help, where hosted tiers win, and how ownership changes the bill.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
cost-optimization
Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok Plugins Show Why Deploy-From-Chat Needs an Open Control Plane
·Dora Noda·11 min

Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok Plugins Show Why Deploy-From-Chat Needs an Open Control Plane

Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok plugins point to a host-neutral control-plane design for safely deploying and operating a PaaS from any chat client.

PaaS
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
security
SELinux Volume Labels in Kubernetes 1.36: Audit Your Multi-Tenant Storage Before 1.37
·Dora Noda·9 min

SELinux Volume Labels in Kubernetes 1.36: Audit Your Multi-Tenant Storage Before 1.37

Kubernetes 1.37 makes SELinux context mounts the default for eligible volumes. Audit CSI drivers, shared PVCs, and label conflicts before the upgrade leaves a Pod stuck in ContainerCreating.

Kubernetes
security
infrastructure
PaaS
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SpinKube on an Existing Kubernetes Fleet: One More RuntimeClass, Not a Parallel Platform
·Dora Noda·9 min

SpinKube on an Existing Kubernetes Fleet: One More RuntimeClass, Not a Parallel Platform

Add Spin WebAssembly workloads to an existing Kubernetes fleet with a containerd shim and RuntimeClass—without adding a second scheduler or parallel platform.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
Statewave Makes Agent Memory Reproducible: A Self-Hosted Alternative to Mem0 and Zep
·Dora Noda·10 min

Statewave Makes Agent Memory Reproducible: A Self-Hosted Alternative to Mem0 and Zep

Statewave compiles provenance-tagged agent context on Postgres. Here is how its model differs from Mem0 and Zep—and how to deploy it without putting memory in a PaaS control plane.

AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
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