1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Headlamp Ships a Cluster API Plugin: Declarative Cluster Lifecycle Finally Gets the UI Kubernetes Dashboard Never Had
Headlamp's June 2026 Cluster API plugin brings clusters, machines, and rollout state into a maintained browser UI just as the Kubernetes Dashboard goes dark — here is what it ships, how to try it, and where it still stops short.
Heroku vs Railway vs Render vs Fly.io: Read the Feature Matrix, Not the Price List (2026)
Heroku, Railway, Render, and Fly.io look interchangeable until you read the feature matrix: free-tier expiries, Postgres row caps, egress meters, and the operational rows that decide year two — plus which rows a self-hosted fleet beats on day one.
Hetzner DNS Makes the RRSet TTL Required on September 30: Audit Your DNS Automation Before Updates Start Failing
On September 30, 2026, Hetzner starts rejecting RRSet TTL updates that omit the ttl field. Here is which callers are already safe, which break, and a 20-minute audit to prove your DNS automation is compliant before the cutoff.
Hetzner Is Giving Away Free Inference. Should Your Fleet Still Run Its Own vLLM?
Hetzner's free OpenAI-compatible inference API gives self-hosted teams zero-capex model access — but rate limits, 5–10s p99 latency, and a scaled-down catalog define what 'free' actually guarantees. Here is the rent-vs-own math and a checklist for when to build your own vLLM.
Hetzner Traffic Overage Math: €1/TB on Owned EU Boxes vs $150/TB on Render, and What It Means for Tenant Bandwidth Pricing
Hetzner Cloud bundles 20 TB of pooled traffic per server with €1/TB overage, while Render charges $150/TB past a 25 GB allowance. Here is the worked math at four egress levels and what flat bandwidth costs mean for pricing tenants on a self-hosted PaaS.
KEP-5677: Tell Tenants 'No GPU Left' Up Front Instead of Parking Their Pods in Pending
Kubernetes 1.37's second alpha of KEP-5677 turns GPU availability into a readable API object. Here is how a self-hosted PaaS turns that per-pool snapshot into a tenant-facing capacity page and a fast admission-time refusal instead of pods stuck in Pending.
Your API Server Still Proxies Every kubectl exec in 1.36: What ExtendWebSocketsToKubelet Really Moves and the 4 Checks Before You Upgrade
Kubernetes 1.36 did not cut the API server out of the exec path — it turned it into a pass-through proxy. What really moved to the kubelet, the RBAC change that actually matters, and four checks to run before you upgrade.
Kubernetes Shipped a Sandbox API for AI Agents: What a Declarative Singleton-Workload Primitive Means for a Deploy-From-Chat PaaS
SIG Apps' Agent Sandbox CRD collapses the hand-rolled StatefulSet-plus-Service-plus-PVC stack into one declarative resource for stateful AI agent runtimes. Here is how the four CRDs work, what the gVisor-vs-Kata choice costs, and which parts a self-hosted platform should adopt now.
MCP's 10,000-Server Problem: Building an Allowlisted, Audited Tool Catalog Before an Agent Can Deploy to Your Fleet
With 10,000+ public MCP servers and most scanned servers needing security review, connecting an agent to a tool is now a governance problem. A tiered, allowlisted tool catalog design — plus a deploy-from-chat walkthrough — for teams running agents against production.