1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Salesforce Closed Both Deploy Doors: The Complete Exit Map for Functions and Heroku Teams
Salesforce Functions went end-of-life in January 2025 and Heroku froze new development in February 2026. One table maps every stranded workload — Functions code, dynos, Postgres, Redis, add-ons — to its destination, with the data-first sequence that avoids migrating twice.
Your Pod Can Now Evict Its Neighbors to Grow: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Resize Goes Alpha in Kubernetes v1.37
Kubernetes v1.37's alpha resize preemption lets the scheduler evict lower-priority pods so a growing pod completes its in-place scale-up instead of stalling in Deferred. Here is how the lifecycle works, a ten-minute kind reproduction, and the PriorityClass policy a self-hosted PaaS needs before trusting it.
Running Your First StorageVersionMigration: What Kubernetes v1.37's GA Migration API Changes in Your Cluster API Upgrade Runbook
Kubernetes v1.37 turned storage version migration into a stable, always-on API. Here is how to run your first migration — Secrets re-encryption, CRD version collapse, and per-resource status checks — and where it slots into a Cluster API fleet's upgrade runbook.
Suga Ranked 7 Heroku Alternatives for Docker Workloads — I Recomputed the Bill on One Reference Stack
Suga's price-verified ranking compares seven Heroku alternatives for Docker workloads. We reprice the same reference stack on all seven plus owned hardware — and find egress is the line item that decides it.
Automatic TLS on Owned Hardware: Caddy vs cert-manager After Hetzner's July Load Balancer Disruption
Hetzner's July 2026 Ashburn load balancer disruption showed what happens when TLS renewal shares fate with a provider's data plane. A comparison of managed LB certificates, Caddy automatic HTTPS, and cert-manager plus Gateway API — and why self-hosted platforms should own the certificate path as Let's Encrypt lifetimes shrink.
Backstage's All-In Cost Hits $700K a Year for 100 Engineers: What Port's Days-to-Weeks Setup Trades Away for the Price
A self-hosted Backstage deployment runs $450K–$700K a year for 100 engineers while a Port subscription costs $30K–$80K and ships in days. Here is where each dollar goes, what the SaaS shortcut trades away, and which one fits your headcount.
Bare-IP TLS Is GA: Instant HTTPS for Preview URLs Without a DNS Round-Trip
Let's Encrypt's generally available 160-hour IP certificates let a preview environment serve valid HTTPS on a bare node IP with no DNS records. Here is the cert-manager plus Gateway API wiring, the renewal math, and when a subdomain still wins.
Better-PaaS and the 'Agent-First' PaaS Pitch: What a Single-VPS Deploy Tool Gets Right — and Where It Stops at the Second Machine
Better-PaaS puts scoped agent tokens and MCP deploy tools on a single VPS — genuinely good design. A verified inventory of what ships, the principle worth stealing, and the concrete second-machine line where single-box agent surfaces stop and multi-node control planes take over.
Bottlerocket Killed Bare-Metal Kubernetes After 1.28: Picking a Node OS for Your CAPH Fleet
Bottlerocket's bare-metal Kubernetes variants ended at 1.28, and the last patches expired with Kubernetes 1.28's end-of-life. Here is how Talos Linux, Flatcar Container Linux, and Kairos compare as the node OS for a Cluster API fleet on owned hardware — and which one fits your team.