1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Vercel Hobby Is Free Until Your Side Project Earns a Dollar
Vercel's Hobby tier stays free only until your project earns its first dollar — then the non-commercial clause pushes you to $20/seat Pro. A worked first-revenue-year comparison against a flat Hetzner box, plus when staying is still the right call.
Gateway API 1.4 Stabilizes BackendTLSPolicy: Encrypting the Gateway-to-Pod Hop Without a Service Mesh
Gateway API 1.4 graduates BackendTLSPolicy to stable, giving shared clusters a portable way to encrypt gateway-to-Pod traffic with fail-closed validation — here is the complete YAML and the rollout checklist for multi-tenant platforms.
Backstage Hits CNCF 'Adopt': What Pairing a Software Catalog With an MCP Server Actually Takes
CNCF's Q1 2026 radar put Backstage in 'Adopt' while its agentic-enterprise commentary demands machine-consumable platform interfaces. The official MCP plugin, read-through sync, and four hard parts — auth, writes, refresh, drift — decide whether the pairing holds.
Buildpacks RFC 0130: Zero-Config OCI Provenance Your SOC 2 Auditor Can Actually Read
Cloud Native Buildpacks approved RFC 0130, stamping buildpack images with source, commit, and version metadata automatically. What that buys a SOC 2 or FedRAMP audit, what unsigned annotations can't prove, and the SBOM plus signed-attestation checklist that closes the gap.
Your Admission Webhook Never Saw That Container: Runtime Supply-Chain Verification With containerd's NRI
Static pods, direct node access, and webhook outages all bypass API-layer image checks. A CNCF-backed NRI plugin moves SLSA, VEX, and VSA verification into the container runtime itself — here is how it works and what it costs to run across a fleet.
Your AI Agent Has the Keys to Your Servers: What a Coolify MCP Bridge Teaches About Scoping Deploy Authority
A community MCP server turns Coolify into agent-callable deploy tools for about 13 dollars a month — but the agent holds a deploy-level API token with nothing between it and delete. Scoped, audited agent credentials are the missing primitive.
Daytona's Sub-90ms vs E2B's 150ms: Does Sandbox Cold Start Matter for AI Agent Loops?
Daytona boots sandboxes in under 90ms while E2B's Firecracker microVMs take about 150ms — but model latency dwarfs both in real agent loops. A numbers-first look at when the gap matters, how the two pricing shapes compare, and what a self-hosted sandbox should copy from each.
Your Agent's Firewall Can't Read SQL. Deno's Claw Patrol Can.
Deno's open-source Claw Patrol terminates agent TCP connections and parses HTTP, Postgres, SSH, and Kubernetes on the wire, so policy sees the query instead of just the connection. How it works, what it costs, and where it belongs on a self-hosted platform.
Railway Locked Enterprise Deploys to a GitHub Org Allowlist: Build the Same Guardrail on Your Own Fleet
Railway's May 2026 changelog lets enterprise workspaces restrict deployments to approved GitHub orgs. Here is what the guardrail enforces and how to rebuild it on your own fleet with ArgoCD source pinning, Kyverno admission policy, and pipeline owner checks.