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CAPMOX Is Maturing Fast: What a Real Cluster API Provider for Proxmox Means Beyond Hetzner-Only Node Pools
·Dora Noda·8 min

CAPMOX Is Maturing Fast: What a Real Cluster API Provider for Proxmox Means Beyond Hetzner-Only Node Pools

IONOS's CAPMOX shipped six releases in fifteen months of active development — here's what the changelog actually shows, how it provisions a node, who else is building the same thing, and what a second CAPI provider really costs a Hetzner-only fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
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CNCF's 19.9 Million Developers, +28% in Six Months: The Math That Says It's Not New Growth
·Dora Noda·8 min

CNCF's 19.9 Million Developers, +28% in Six Months: The Math That Says It's Not New Growth

CNCF says the cloud native developer population jumped 28% in six months to 19.9 million, with 7.3 million now AI developers. The arithmetic says that's not a wave of new developers — it's existing developers crossing a line, and it changes how fast a platform's agent golden path has to ship.

self-hosting
PaaS
engineering
AI
Cordyceps: How a Free GitHub Account Hijacked CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare
·Dora Noda·9 min

Cordyceps: How a Free GitHub Account Hijacked CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare

A researcher with a free GitHub account and no org access could hijack CI/CD at Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare, Apache, and the Python Software Foundation. Here's what the Cordyceps vulnerability class actually does, and the audit checklist to run against your own build pipeline.

security
cybersecurity
PaaS
self-hosting
Firecracker MicroVMs for Multi-Tenant CI: What Per-Build Kernel Isolation Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·8 min

Firecracker MicroVMs for Multi-Tenant CI: What Per-Build Kernel Isolation Actually Costs

A shared-kernel build pod runs a tenant's arbitrary install scripts and Dockerfiles next to every other tenant's. Firecracker microVMs can close that gap per build — real numbers from BuildBuddy's production fleet included — but per-step isolation, which nobody has actually shipped, is a different and much worse trade.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
Kubernetes
The Postgres Backup Tool Anthropic and OpenAI Both Backed in the Same Month
·Dora Noda·8 min

The Postgres Backup Tool Anthropic and OpenAI Both Backed in the Same Month

Databasus out-starred pgBackRest, WAL-G, and Barman in 14 months, landed in the official PostgreSQL Software Catalogue, and got backed by both Anthropic and OpenAI's open-source programs in the same month. Here's what it actually is, and whether it belongs next to a Kubernetes-native Postgres fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
Kubernetes
Devin Outposts: Cognition Shipped a Kubernetes Operator Instead of a Bigger Cloud
·Dora Noda·8 min

Devin Outposts: Cognition Shipped a Kubernetes Operator Instead of a Bigger Cloud

Cognition's Devin Outposts keeps the reasoning in the cloud but moves command execution onto your own machines — and shipped a Kubernetes operator to run it. Here's exactly what devin-outpost-k8s deploys and what a Cluster-API fleet needs to add to host it natively.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
AI agents
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Dokploy vs. Coolify in 2026: What Happens the Day You Click 'Add Server'
·Dora Noda·9 min

Dokploy vs. Coolify in 2026: What Happens the Day You Click 'Add Server'

Coolify and Dokploy both added multi-server features in 2026. Neither provisions a machine, heals a dead node, or wires up a load balancer without a human at the keyboard. Here's the feature-by-feature gap against a Cluster API fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
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eBPF Made Continuous Profiling Nearly Free — But Someone Still Has to Store It: Parca vs. Pyroscope on a Self-Hosted Fleet
·Dora Noda·8 min

eBPF Made Continuous Profiling Nearly Free — But Someone Still Has to Store It: Parca vs. Pyroscope on a Self-Hosted Fleet

Parca and Pyroscope both run eBPF-based continuous profiling under 1% CPU overhead. Here's what standing either one up as a Cluster API service actually costs in storage and operational surface, worked against Datadog and Grafana Cloud's own profiling bills for the same fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
engineering
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Hetzner's ARM (CAX) Instances Won't Save You Money Until Your Build Layer Can Target Them
·Dora Noda·9 min

Hetzner's ARM (CAX) Instances Won't Save You Money Until Your Build Layer Can Target Them

Hetzner's Ampere ARM (CAX) instances are pitched as cheaper per core than x86 CX. Current 2026 pricing says otherwise — and the real gate on ARM economics is whether your buildpacks pipeline can produce an arm64 image at all.

PaaS
self-hosting
cost-optimization
Kubernetes
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