# ChristianLempa/boilerplates

Create reusable templates and turn them into configurable workloads for homelabs and self-hosted infrastructure. Free and Open-Source.

Repository: https://github.com/ChristianLempa/boilerplates
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/boilerplates
Homepage: https://getboilerplates.app/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ansible, docker, docker-compose, kubernetes, packer, terraform, bash, docker-swarm, python
Last push: 2026-06-02T15:05:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 85, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1909, "days_push": 92, "days_rel": 92, "gap_med": 3.0, "n_releases_24m": 15}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7943, forks 1830 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:10.072023+00:00)

## What it is
A CLI tool and template library for creating reusable infrastructure templates and rendering them into configurable workloads for homelabs and self-hosted setups. It uses a Jinja2-like templating syntax with guided variable prompts, git-backed template libraries, and 100+ presets for Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and more.

## Use cases
- scaffold docker-compose stacks for a homelab from reusable templates
- turn infrastructure boilerplates into environment-specific configs with a guided wizard
- manage a git-backed library of terraform and ansible templates
- generate self-hosted service configurations with secrets wired in
- render templated config files and copy them to remote servers
- bootstrap new self-hosted projects from preset templates

## When to choose
- you run a homelab or self-hosted infrastructure and want reusable, parameterized configs
- you maintain a personal library of docker-compose, terraform, or ansible boilerplates
- you want a CLI to discover, validate, and render templates with interactive variable prompts

## When to avoid
- you need a full configuration management or provisioning tool rather than template rendering
- you rely on the legacy template.yaml/.j2 format, which is no longer supported
- you need language-specific validation (compilation, linting) for generated python/bash templates, which is still minimal

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: boilerplate, configuration-management, templating, developer-tools, infrastructure-as-code
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: cli, windows, cross-platform
- tags: homelab, self-hosted, templates, jinja2, docker-compose, terraform, ansible, kubernetes, scaffolding, devops, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ChristianLempa/boilerplates (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:10.072023+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:33:13.263220+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ChristianLempa/boilerplates (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:10.072023+00:00, sha c4b34161e14f)
  - homepage: https://getboilerplates.app/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:29:46.448353+00:00, sha 8c1183fdadab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.