What Is Self-Hosted?
CDE platforms that you install, operate, and upgrade on your own infrastructure, with no vendor-operated control plane.
Definition
CDE platforms that you install, operate, and upgrade on your own infrastructure, with no vendor-operated control plane.
Genuine examples are Coder (Community edition), Okteto, and Eclipse Che. Preferred for compliance requirements. Distinguish this from bring-your-own-cloud models such as Ona's runners, where workloads run in your VPC but the vendor still operates the control plane - vendors and comparison articles often blur the two.
Where This Fits
This term is covered in depth on Self-Hosted vs Managed CDE: The Decision Framework.
The choice turns on whether you have a funded platform team, not on features. Four deployment positions, the real operating costs, and the gaps.