# gocircuit/circuit

Circuit: Dynamic cloud orchestration http://gocircuit.org

Repository: https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/circuit
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-10-18T05:43:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4528, "days_push": 1050, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1976, forks 156 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.329679+00:00)

## What it is
Circuit is a programmable PaaS/IaaS platform written in Go for managing, discovering, synchronizing, and orchestrating services and hosts across cloud applications, including multi-datacenter deployments. It exposes a hierarchical key/value control space with command-line and programmatic APIs, and integrates with Docker.

## Use cases
- orchestrate services across multiple datacenters
- manage cloud hosts and processes from the command line
- build distributed compute pipelines linking third-party utilities
- codify installation and maintenance procedures as executable scripts
- discover and monitor daemons on provisioned machines
- integrate Docker container management into cloud workflows

## When to choose
- you need multi-datacenter orchestration with zero-configuration host provisioning
- you want programmatic and CLI control over cloud infrastructure with a consistent key/value control space
- you prefer a small-footprint daemon that coexists with existing architectures
- you want executable scripts replacing textual runbooks and post-mortems

## When to avoid
- you need a modern, actively developed orchestrator like Kubernetes with a large ecosystem
- your project requires container orchestration only without host/process-level control
- you need strong community support and frequent updates, as development activity has slowed

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, service-discovery, cli, sdk
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: paas, iaas, orchestration, cloud-infrastructure, docker-integration, devops, containers, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- gocircuit/circuit (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.329679+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 2026-08-30T03:04:49.962876+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.329679+00:00, sha f20c7bd2d0c0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.