wokalski / based-stack

based-stack

OS

• nix: declarative, simple but finicky and unpopular.
• flatcar: all in one sane option but not declarative. Strong emphasis on security, optimized for container workloads.

VPN/remote access/networking

• tailscale

k8s distribution

• rke2 - a modern version of k3s

CNI

• Cilium

CSI

• Linstor (via Piraeus operator, possibly with K8S api instead of a separate etcd cluster)
• OpenEBS (very simple and a good option for initial bootstrapping, especially for local/hostpath PVs)
• Longhorn: Simple but annoying and slow. The most annoying tihng is that CPU spikes lead to read only FS which fuck things up.

DB

• Clickhouse
• Postgres (with CNPG operator that will cover everything from HA to connection pooling to backups via CRDs)

Frontend

• React

Backend

• Nodejs
• PHP

Systems development (high performance)

• OCaml
• Zig
• Go
• Rust (only if you really really really really need C++...)

Observability/Metrics

• Store logs in Clickhouse
• Loki is fine too....
• Vector.dev as collection and delivery pipeline for logs, metrics, traces. (VRL is very performant and robust)
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Sysdig
• Netdata

Object storage

• MinIO

GitOps

• Flux
• ArgoCD
• Terraform