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8% CPU, 69% Overprovisioning: A 30-Minute Kubernetes Fleet Audit
·Dora Noda·10 min

8% CPU, 69% Overprovisioning: A 30-Minute Kubernetes Fleet Audit

Measure allocatable, requested, and used resources in 30 minutes, then test whether a self-hosted Kubernetes fleet can safely remove a node without sacrificing N-1 resilience.

Kubernetes
cost-optimization
self-hosting
cloud infrastructure
DigitalOcean App Platform Legacy Plans in 2026: Stay, Migrate, or Self-Host?
·Dora Noda·10 min

DigitalOcean App Platform Legacy Plans in 2026: Stay, Migrate, or Self-Host?

DigitalOcean still supports App Platform apps created before May 7, 2024, but says legacy plans will be deprecated soon. Here is the bill math for staying, moving to current pricing, or running the same small fleet on owned Hetzner capacity.

self-hosting
PaaS
migration
cost-optimization
Before AI Agents Operate Your Platform: The Catalog Hygiene Contract Your IDP Needs
·Dora Noda·10 min

Before AI Agents Operate Your Platform: The Catalog Hygiene Contract Your IDP Needs

Use a field-level catalog contract, a worked deploy example, and staged authority controls to let AI agents safely operate a self-hosted developer platform.

AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
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Anthropic Paused Its Claude Agent SDK Meter. Your Agent-Ops Cost Model Still Needs It.
·Dora Noda·9 min

Anthropic Paused Its Claude Agent SDK Meter. Your Agent-Ops Cost Model Still Needs It.

Anthropic paused its proposed Agent SDK credit split, but deploy-from-chat platforms still need a concrete model for attributing and budgeting unattended agent work.

AI agents
Claude
infrastructure
self-hosting
CNCF's 276–327-Patch Maintenance Bill for an Internal Platform
·Dora Noda·11 min

CNCF's 276–327-Patch Maintenance Bill for an Internal Platform

A 14-project Kubernetes platform can face 276–327 patches, 43–52 minor upgrades, and 2–5 major upgrades a year. This worked model turns that queue into 187–1,063 engineer-hours and shows how part-time operators can contain it.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
Coolify Critical CVEs: The PaaS Isolation Lesson
·Dora Noda·10 min

Coolify Critical CVEs: The PaaS Isolation Lesson

Critical Coolify advisories show how authorization failures and deployment input can reach privileged infrastructure—and which layered controls can narrow the blast radius.

security
self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
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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Hetzner DNS Makes `ttl` Mandatory: Audit the One ACME Call That Can Break Renewal
·Dora Noda·9 min

Hetzner DNS Makes `ttl` Mandatory: Audit the One ACME Call That Can Break Renewal

Hetzner Cloud DNS will require an explicit TTL on one RRSet action after September 30, 2026. Identify whether your ACME path uses it, patch the request correctly, and rehearse a safe renewal.

cloud infrastructure
Kubernetes
self-hosting
security
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