# cloudfoundry/bosh

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.

Repository: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bosh
Homepage: https://bosh.io
Language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T07:49:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5266, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 56}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2077, forks 663 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.327077+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: cloud, cli, go, ruby
- tags: bosh, release-engineering, iaas, stemcells, cpi, cloud-foundry, vm-lifecycle, zero-downtime-deploys, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- cloudfoundry/bosh (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.327077+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 2026-08-30T02:56:08.928122+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.327077+00:00, sha a1b9f3db5f57)
  - homepage: https://bosh.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.362650+00:00, sha f9399c043a26)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2-install (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.372215+00:00, sha be4bc84a2f2e)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/update-cloud-config (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.375319+00:00, sha f1475ee301c6)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/terminology (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.377444+00:00, sha d50270cde442)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/problems (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.381497+00:00, sha 5bc5626b5165)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/design (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.383571+00:00, sha 5be32ba89dd4)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/understanding-bosh (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.385321+00:00, sha fe6f6f462fae)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/docs/community (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.387023+00:00, sha 6d694058fd9b)
  - site_page: https://bosh.io/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:25.379644+00:00, sha a706731f03e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.