Wrote an DevOps infra project in MERN. Roast us maybe?

#1

Post by rtilwaniog » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 6:02 AM UTC

TL;DR wrote a DevOps platform in MERN due to the needs of the project and the skills of team members, do we need to change the stack to be accepted by the open-source community?

Yo people,

We are building a DevOps platform and most of our team is really good at the MERN stack so we got started with that. We are planning to open source our codebase soon.

In some of the conversations with a few folks last week, some people pointed out that a JS infra project might be looked down upon and people usually prefer Go/Python while contributing to DevOps/infra projects.

Keeping the tech requirements aside (we will bring in Go and Python as and when needed from a technical standpoint), are there really perceived biases or prejudices for the language in which a project is written?

Re: Wrote an DevOps infra project in MERN. Roast us maybe?

#2

Post by andarp » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

If your service is good and solves a problem, the underlying tech rarely matters.

If you are expecting your users to write code themselves as part of using the platform, JS and Python probably are the most widely known and are good choices if you ask me.

Without knowing more specifics it’s hard to really give an opinion on what you should do.

Re: Wrote an DevOps infra project in MERN. Roast us maybe?

#3

Post by rtilwaniog » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 6:50 AM UTC

andarp wrote: post #2

If your service is good and solves a problem, the underlying tech rarely matters. If you are expecting your users to write code themselves as part of using the platform, JS and Python probably are the most widely known and are good choices if you ask me. Without knowing more specifics it’s hard to really give an opinion on what you should do.

We are building a DevOps platform where a user can get started with deploying on K8s really quickly. The platform helps users create K8s clusters in their own cloud accounts. Post the platform helps users generate Dockerfiles and YAMLs for application deployment. There is inbuilt logging, monitoring and CI/CD as well.

Users can also manage their cloud resources like firewalls and CDNs using the platform or run any service using helm charts