# docker-archive-public/docker.machine

Machine management for a container-centric world

Repository: https://github.com/docker-archive-public/docker.machine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dockermachine
Homepage: https://docs.docker.com/machine/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-02-13T19:27:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4291, "days_push": 1662, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6609, forks 1949 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.704440+00:00)

## What it is
Docker Machine is a Go CLI tool that provisions Docker hosts on local VMs, cloud providers, or data centers, installs Docker on them, and configures the local Docker client to connect. It is now deprecated and archived by Docker.

## Use cases
- provision docker hosts on cloud providers from the cli
- create a local virtualbox vm with docker installed
- manage multiple remote docker hosts
- configure docker client to talk to a remote daemon
- spin up docker engines in a data center

## When to choose
- you maintain legacy infrastructure still provisioned with docker-machine
- you need to script creation of docker hosts on older cloud drivers

## When to avoid
- starting new projects - the tool is deprecated and archived
- you want modern docker host provisioning - use Docker Desktop, cloud provider tools, or Terraform instead

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, deployment, container-runtime, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: docker-machine, provisioning, virtualization, deprecated, cloud-providers, devops, containers

## Member repositories
- docker-archive-public/docker.machine (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.704440+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 2026-08-29T17:43:30.947186+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/docker-archive-public/docker.machine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.704440+00:00, sha c899e752fb86)
  - homepage: https://docs.docker.com/machine/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.527030+00:00, sha a7743be7ddb1)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.535751+00:00, sha 3055e7b816a0)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.537385+00:00, sha 05f59418049e)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/integrations/vscode (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.538917+00:00, sha 48747553828d)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/integrations/cursor (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.540371+00:00, sha 6373846e0b42)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/integrations/claude-desktop (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.541863+00:00, sha 60ececd493de)
  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/integrations/chatgpt (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.543300+00:00, sha 8f6dec653358)
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  - site_page: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:50.546596+00:00, sha 292801ea55f7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.