1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Rubrik Just Gave Enterprise Agents a Governed MCP Path Into Its Security Cloud: Steal the Governed-Tool Pattern for Your Infra MCP Server
Rubrik's September 2026 MCP launch gave enterprise agents a governed path into backup and recovery workflows — narrow tools, per-call scoped tokens, and server-side policy instead of ambient API authority. What the governed-tool pattern means for a deploy/rollback/log MCP server, and the six controls to ship on day one.
Shadow AI in the Pipeline: What to Audit From Laptop to Kubernetes Before Unvetted AI Becomes a Supply-Chain Bridge
Unmanaged AI tools now sit at every stage from developer laptop to production cluster. A stage-by-stage audit of what to check and which open-source controls clamp each risk on a build fleet you own.
Skupper vs Submariner vs Istio Ambient: Picking the Cross-Cluster Link for a Hetzner-Split Fleet
Submariner merges networks, Skupper links services, and Istio's ambient multicluster — beta since KubeCon EU 2026 — merges meshes. A concrete comparison of what each demands of a Cluster API fleet split across Hetzner regions, and which layer a git-push PaaS should own for tenant traffic.
SSH Into a Throwaway Instance: Render's Ephemeral Shell and the New Bar for PaaS Debug Access
Render's June 2026 ephemeral SSH instances plus shell-session audit events define what tenant debug access should look like. Here is how to match it on a self-hosted PaaS with same-digest debug pods, session-scoped RBAC, and an explicit call on session recording.
Per-Request Redis Is Cheap Until It Isn't: The $0.20-per-100K Crossover Against Fixed Plans and Self-Hosted Valkey
Upstash's $0.20-per-100K serverless Redis beats the $10 fixed plan until about 5M commands a month — then the meter costs 10-100x more. A worked crossover against fixed plans and self-hosted Valkey, plus the chatty queue and pub/sub patterns that bankrupt you.
Velero Is a CNCF Project Now: What That Buys Your Self-Hosted Disaster-Recovery Story
Broadcom donated Velero to the CNCF Sandbox at KubeCon EU 2026, ending three years of single-vendor risk on Kubernetes' default backup tool. Here is what neutral governance changes and the concrete DR blueprint for a fleet you own — S3-compatible storage, nightly schedules, and the Cluster API restore drill.
Vercel's fingerprintTools and detectToolDrift: The First Drift-Detection Primitives for MCP Tool Execution
Vercel's AI SDK added fingerprintTools and detectToolDrift to catch MCP servers silently mutating approved tool definitions. Here is how the pinning works, the behavior-swap hole it leaves open, and what a self-hosted deploy MCP server should adopt.
Vercel Renamed the Meters Instead of Cutting Them: Four Pricing Revisions, One Unchanged Bill
Vercel renamed bandwidth to Fast Data Transfer and split serverless billing into Active CPU and Provisioned Memory across four pricing revisions — but the overage economics never moved. A line-by-line translation into real dollars, plus the flat-price self-hosted alternative.
Windows Just Shipped Its Own Docker Desktop Bypass: What wslc Means for Git-Push Deploys
Microsoft's WSL Containers preview in WSL 2.9.3 gives Windows 11 a built-in OCI container runtime — wslc.exe — with Docker-like commands, twice-as-fast virtiofs file access, and VPN-friendly networking. Here is the license-free build-locally-push-to-PaaS loop and the per-seat math it deletes.