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The Frank Papers
The Frank Papers

The Frank Papers

Research-grade landscape reviews for every capability on the cluster. Each Paper maps the vendor space, grades options against a decision-maker rubric, and returns to Frank’s choice as a worked case study — honest about where that choice would not generalize.

Cloud-native vs managed homelab vs DIY layer: repo
x86 + ARM + GPU on bare metal layer: hw
Talos + Fedora CoreOS + Flatcar + Bottlerocket layer: os
Cilium + Hubble + eBPF layer: net
Longhorn + Rook-Ceph + Mayastor + Piraeus layer: stor
NVIDIA + Intel iGPU + DRA + MIG layer: gpu
ArgoCD + Flux + Jenkins X + Spinnaker layer: gitops
Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + VictoriaMetrics layer: obs
Velero + Longhorn snapshots + restic layer: backup
Infisical + SOPS + External Secrets Operator layer: secrets
Ollama + vLLM + llama.cpp + TGI + LiteLLM layer: infer
Authentik + Keycloak + Dex + Zitadel + Authelia layer: auth
12 Multi-Tenancy with vCluster planned
vCluster + Capsule + kiosk + namespaces layer: tenant
Gitea + Tekton + Zot layer: cicd
Argo Rollouts layer: deploy
Traefik + Authentik + Homepage layer: net
16 Self-Hosted Media Generation planned
ComfyUI + GPU switcher layer: media
Sympozium + secure-agent-pod + VK Remote layer: orch
18 Workflow Automation Beyond CI/CD deferred
n8n layer: cicd
Phase 2 — Need lived experience
19 Feature-Level Health & the Alert-to-Issue Bridge deferred
Blackbox + Pushgateway + Health Bridge layer: obs
Phase 2 — Need lived experience
Hop + Headscale + Caddy layer: edge
21 Self-Hosted Blog Analytics, Cookieless deferred
GoatCounter + Plausible + Umami + Matomo layer: obs
Phase 2 — Need ≥6 months of real visitor data to judge cookieless vs rich-events
22 Edge HTTP Security at Small Scale deferred
CrowdSec + fail2ban + Cloudflare WAF + Caddy rate-limit layer: edge
Phase 2 — Need accumulated CrowdSec decisions + a real attack to compare false-positive rates
23 Container Runtime Security on an Immutable OS deferred
Falco modern_ebpf + Tetragon + Wazuh agent layer: obs
Phase 2 — Need broader Falco rule-tuning experience on Talos