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apolloconfig/apollo

Apollo is a reliable configuration management system suitable for microservice configuration management scenarios. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/apolloconfig/apollo · homepage · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 68
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 119
  • age_days: 3834
  • days_rel: 52
  • days_push: 11
  • n_releases_24m: 4

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Adoption not part of the score

29803 stars · 10164 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Apollo is a reliable, centralized configuration management system for microservices, built on Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. It provides a web portal and server for managing configurations across environments and clusters, with SDKs for Java and .NET that support real-time (hot) configuration updates.

Use cases

  • centrally manage microservice configurations across environments and clusters
  • push configuration changes to running services in real time without restarts
  • share common configuration across multiple applications via namespaces
  • roll back bad configuration releases and track change history
  • give different clusters of the same app different configuration values
  • self-host a configuration center for Spring Boot / Spring Cloud apps

When to choose

  • you run many microservices and need centralized, versioned configuration management
  • you need hot-reload of configuration without redeploying services
  • you use Spring Boot/Spring Cloud and want first-class Java SDK integration
  • you need environment/cluster/namespace separation with permissions, audits, and rollback

When to avoid

  • you only need simple per-service config files or a lightweight key-value store
  • your stack is not Java or .NET and lacks an official SDK
  • you already standardize on a platform like Kubernetes ConfigMaps or a cloud config service
  • you cannot operate the additional server-side infrastructure (portal, config service, database)

Facets

service · maturity stable

configuration-management microservices self-hosted developer-tools microservices backend self-hosted jvm self-hosted cross-platform config-center spring-cloud hot-reload config-server java-client dotnet-client devops spring-boot docker

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