1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
CIS Shipped the First MCP Server Benchmark: A 10-Domain Hardening Checklist Before Agents Get Production Credentials
The CIS MCP Server Benchmark v1.0.0 packs 55 recommendations into 10 security domains — here is each domain mapped to a concrete pass/fail check for a self-hosted PaaS deploy/operate surface, plus the four gaps to close before agent credentials touch production.
Sealed Secrets vs External Secrets Operator in 2026: What Git-Stored Ciphertext Really Costs a Three-Person Platform Team Against Vault Sync
Sealed Secrets vs External Secrets Operator for tenant secrets on a self-hosted multi-tenant fleet: a grounded cost comparison of vault sync against git-stored ciphertext, with tenant-isolation recipes and the thresholds for switching.
Four 2026 Heroku-Alternative Rankings, Four Different Winners: The Disagreement Is the Data
Back4App, thesoftwarescout, techsy.io, and SaaSOffers each crowned a different Heroku alternative in 2026. A meta-read of why the winners disagree — the seats, egress, and free-tier criteria that move the crown — against the flat Hetzner box that anchors every bill.
One Heroku Calculator, Three Different Winners — and What Happens When Self-Hosted Is the Fourth Option
A 2026 Heroku cost calculator crowns a different winner per priority — Railway on cost, Render on simplicity, Fly.io on speed — and rerunning the same workload with a $50 flat-rate box as the fourth option puts the honest crossover at 1–2.5x the reference traffic, depending on how you price ops time.
Three Vendors Pitched You a Heroku Exit in 2026. Here's What All Three Guides Left Out.
Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Cloud66 each published a Heroku exit guide after the February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement: a totaled reference bill (147 USD/mo) against all three landings, the egress sensitivity math that flips the ranking, and the meters, mappings, and labor the guides omit.
Rootless Kubelet Goes Beta in Kubernetes 1.37: A Hardening Checklist for Self-Hosted Fleets
Kubernetes 1.37 promotes KubeletInUserNamespace to beta, letting the kubelet and node components run as an unprivileged user so container breakouts stop at a UID instead of host root — plus the nine-item cgroup, runtime, CNI, and storage checklist for making rootless your node-image default.
Kubernetes 1.36's Sharded List and Watch: the N× Watch Tax It Kills, and the Ceiling It Doesn't Touch
Kubernetes 1.36's alpha sharded list and watch cuts sharded-controller stream cost from N× to 1× — but it shards controller fan-out, not etcd. The math, the mechanism, and the operator checklist for self-hosted fleets.
MCP Won: Why Every Major AI Vendor Shipping One Protocol Makes 'Deploy From Chat' a Safe Roadmap Bet
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all ship MCP now — 97M monthly SDK downloads, 10,000+ servers, neutral foundation governance. What that convergence changes about betting your platform's deploy/rollback/logs agent surface on one protocol, and the four residual risks to budget for.
MLflow's MCP Registry: Versioned, Governed Tool Dependencies for Production Agents
MLflow 3.15.0's experimental MCP Registry versions MCP servers with semver, promotes them through staging and production aliases, snapshots their tools, and links traces to exact versions — a worked walkthrough of the promotion loop, the registry-vs-gateway boundary, and when a second tenant makes the catalog mandatory.