cloudfoundry/bosh
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 7
- age_days: 5266
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 56
Adoption not part of the score
2077 stars · 663 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open-source tool chain for release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management of large-scale distributed services across multiple IaaS providers. It provisions and deploys software over hundreds of VMs, with monitoring, failure recovery, and zero-to-minimal-downtime updates.
Use cases
- deploy cloud foundry across hundreds of vms
- reproducibly package and deploy distributed software releases
- self-healing vm and process monitoring with automatic recovery
- zero-downtime rolling updates of large clusters
- multi-cloud deployment across aws, azure, gcp, vsphere, openstack
- bootstrap a bosh director from scratch with create-env
When to choose
- you operate large-scale distributed systems needing reproducible, versioned deployments
- you need self-healing infrastructure with automated failure recovery across clouds
- you deploy Cloud Foundry or similar multi-component services on multiple IaaS providers
When to avoid
- you only need simple single-VM or container deployments where Kubernetes or plain scripts suffice
- your team cannot invest in learning BOSH's stemcell/release/manifest concepts
- you deploy only to Kubernetes-native workloads
Facets
framework · maturity active
deployment infrastructure-as-code monitoring configuration-management cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices self-hosted cloud cli go ruby bosh release-engineering iaas stemcells cpi cloud-foundry vm-lifecycle zero-downtime-deploys devops linux
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh · fetched 2026-08-28 · a1b9f3db5f57
- homepage: https://bosh.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · f9399c043a26
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2-install · fetched 2026-08-29 · be4bc84a2f2e
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/update-cloud-config · fetched 2026-08-29 · f1475ee301c6
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/terminology · fetched 2026-08-29 · d50270cde442
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/problems · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5bc5626b5165
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/design · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5be32ba89dd4
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/understanding-bosh · fetched 2026-08-29 · fe6f6f462fae
- site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/community · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6d694058fd9b
- site_page: https://bosh.io/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · a706731f03e4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cloudfoundry/bosh | main | 99 |
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