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coredns/coredns

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/coredns/coredns · homepage · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 86
  • 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: 36.5
  • age_days: 3820
  • days_rel: 15
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 17

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

14280 stars · 2514 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server and forwarder written in Go that chains plugins, each performing a DNS function. It is a CNCF graduated project that supports serving zones, caching, DNSSEC signing, and service discovery backends like Kubernetes, etcd, and major cloud DNS providers.

Use cases

  • run a dns server for my kubernetes cluster
  • resolve service names inside kubernetes
  • forward dns queries to upstream resolvers
  • serve dns zone files with dnssec signing
  • set up dns over https or dns over tls
  • cache dns responses to reduce upstream load
  • replace skydns with an etcd-backed dns server
  • monitor dns query metrics with prometheus

When to choose

  • you need a flexible, plugin-based authoritative or recursive DNS server
  • you run Kubernetes and need cluster service discovery
  • you want modern DNS transports like DoT, DoH, DoH3, or DoQ
  • you want to integrate DNS with etcd or cloud provider DNS services

When to avoid

  • you need a full recursive resolver with a root hints cache like BIND or Unbound
  • you need a GUI-managed DNS solution for non-technical administrators
  • you only need simple DNS lookups from application code, where a DNS client library suffices

Facets

service · maturity stable

http-server caching service-discovery monitoring plugin-system middleware networking infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing self-hosted microservices windows go cross-platform dns-server dns-over-tls dns-over-https dns-over-quic kubernetes-dns cncf zone-file dnssec forwarder devops linux macos docker kubernetes

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