coreos/fleet
fleet ties together systemd and etcd into a distributed init system observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
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: n/a
- age_days: 4709
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2766
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2415 stars · 295 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
fleet is a distributed init system that ties together systemd and etcd to schedule systemd units across a cluster of Linux machines. It is a low-level foundation for cluster orchestration, not a full container manager.
Use cases
- schedule systemd services across a cluster of machines
- run the same service on every node in a cluster
- launch and inspect cluster-wide units with fleetctl
- build higher-level orchestration on top of systemd and etcd
- manage small Linux clusters without Kubernetes
When to choose
- you maintain a legacy CoreOS Container Linux cluster already using fleet
- you need simple systemd unit scheduling across fewer than 100 nodes
- you want a minimal systemd-plus-etcd clustering primitive rather than a full orchestrator
When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is deprecated and no longer maintained
- you need container orchestration - use Kubernetes instead
- clusters larger than 100 nodes or more than 1000 services due to scalability limits
- you need active community support or security fixes
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
container-orchestration scheduling deployment cli microservices infrastructure-as-code self-hosted go cli self-hosted systemd etcd cluster-init deprecated coreos distributed-init-system containers devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/coreos/fleet · fetched 2026-08-28 · bad5d399ec60
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| coreos/fleet | main | 10 |
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