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Straight up barebones Linux.
That's likely what I'll end up doing
I've been running straight Ubuntu with ZFS-on-Linux since 18.04, and it has been smooth sailing. If you're running a lot of containerized things it's very convenient to just be able to bind mount ZFS dataset into containers.
Normally I prefer CentOS/RockyLinux, or some other EL distribution, but in this case I really appreciate that Canonical isn't purist enough to ship ZFS as a loadable kernel module that is guaranteed to be in sync with the shipped kernel. And don't have to deal with DKMS.
Alpine Linux might also be interesting.
I think alpine qualifies as barebones Linux, generally.