# cocaine/cocaine-core

An open platform to build your own PaaS clouds.

Repository: https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cocaine-core
Language: C++
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2018-01-22T10:14:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5642, "days_push": 3145, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1038, forks 93 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:19.716729+00:00)

## What it is
Cocaine is an open-source cloud platform for building your own PaaS, similar to Heroku or Google App Engine, with dynamic worker pools, services, and multi-language app support. It provides automatic scaling, node discovery, peer-to-peer load balancing, and isolation via CGroups or Docker.

## Use cases
- build my own paas cloud
- self-hosted heroku alternative
- run polyglot apps with automatic scaling
- deploy apps across a server cluster with load balancing
- stream and pipeline large data processing workloads
- run isolated app workers with cgroups or docker

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, language-agnostic app engine
- you need automatic worker pool scaling and cluster-wide balancing
- you want pluggable services like storage, caching, and logging in one cloud platform

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained project - the latest release is from 2018
- you want modern Kubernetes-native or container-orchestrator-based PaaS
- you need Windows or macOS support - it targets Linux

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cloud, deployment, microservices, message-queue, caching, logging, file-system, workflow-automation
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices, backend, self-hosted
- platform: cpp, self-hosted
- tags: paas, app-engine, heroku-alternative, worker-pools, cgroups, service-mesh, load-balancing, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- cocaine/cocaine-core (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.716729+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 2026-08-30T07:04:14.957666+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.716729+00:00, sha 081ae6627776)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.