# dragonflyoss/dragonfly-archived

This repository has be archived and moved to the new repository https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2.

Repository: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly-archived
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dragonfly-archived
Homepage: https://d7y.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: p2p, docker-image, registry, pouch, cloud-native, cncf
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-02-27T11:07:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3213, "days_push": 1283, "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 5930, forks 756 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:32.418198+00:00)

## What it is
Dragonfly is a CNCF-graduated P2P-based file and container image distribution system that accelerates large-scale data delivery by leveraging peer idle bandwidth. This specific repository is the deprecated Dragonfly 1.x codebase, archived and superseded by dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2.

## Use cases
- accelerate container image pulls in large kubernetes clusters
- distribute ai model weights across many nodes with p2p
- reduce registry bandwidth costs for image distribution
- speed up large file distribution across datacenters
- preheat harbor images with p2p
- distribute training datasets to gpu clusters

## When to choose
- you need large-scale p2p distribution of images, files, or ai models in cloud-native infrastructure
- you want a cncf-graduated, production-proven distribution system

## When to avoid
- you want the actively maintained version - use dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2 instead
- you need small-scale distribution where p2p overhead is unnecessary
- you require support for this archived 1.x codebase

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: p2p, container-runtime, proxy, self-hosted, deployment
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: go, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: p2p-file-distribution, container-image-acceleration, cncf-graduated, deprecated, oci-registry, nydus, harbor-integration, containers, devops, linux, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- dragonflyoss/dragonfly-archived (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.418198+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 2026-08-29T17:50:48.230841+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly-archived (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.418198+00:00, sha 39e5a7376e66)
  - homepage: https://d7y.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.061136+00:00, sha e334730843c9)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/next (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.069999+00:00, sha eb287f4b14cb)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.072096+00:00, sha e89e20980c1e)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.4.0 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.074363+00:00, sha ebb276b7188b)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.3.0 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.076067+00:00, sha 01b3950fffe1)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.2.0 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.077711+00:00, sha 8a1636325dca)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.1.x (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.079514+00:00, sha f08983bc710c)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.1.0 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.081126+00:00, sha a159704155d5)
  - site_page: https://d7y.io/docs/v2.0.9 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:36.082754+00:00, sha 32a020216183)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.