What are the operational trade-offs between managed and self-hosted Catalyst?

The core operational trade-offs between managed and self-hosted Catalyst center on administrative overhead and customization control. Managed deployments shift responsibility for infrastructure management, patching, scaling, and availability monitoring of both Catalyst and Dapr control planes to Diagrid, while self-hosted options let engineering teams customize every layer of their deployment stack. Self-hosted setups require your team to own full end-to-end maintenance of all Catalyst and Dapr control plane components.