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dragonflyoss/dragonfly

Delivers efficient, stable, and secure data distribution and acceleration powered by P2P technology, with an optional content‑addressable filesystem that accelerates OCI container launch. observed · 2026-08-28

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

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • 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: 6.0
  • age_days: 2128
  • days_rel: 8
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 75

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3311 stars · 423 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Dragonfly is a CNCF Graduated P2P-based file and container image distribution system that accelerates large-scale delivery of images, OCI artifacts, AI models, and other files. It includes Manager, Scheduler, Seed Peer, and Peer components, plus optional Nydus content-addressable filesystem support for faster container launches.

Use cases

  • speed up docker image pulls in a large kubernetes cluster
  • distribute AI model weights and datasets across many nodes
  • reduce registry bandwidth costs with p2p image distribution
  • accelerate OCI container startup with nydus snapshotter
  • preheat images from harbor before deployments
  • share large log or cache files across a datacenter

When to choose

  • you run large-scale clusters where image pulls saturate registry bandwidth
  • you need to distribute big files or AI models to many peers efficiently
  • you want a CNCF graduated, production-proven solution used by major companies

When to avoid

  • small clusters where a plain registry pull is fast enough
  • you cannot deploy extra infrastructure components (manager, scheduler, seed peers)
  • you need simple single-node downloads without p2p coordination

Facets

service · maturity stable

p2p proxy caching container-runtime self-hosted deployment cloud-computing microservices self-hosted artificial-intelligence go cloud self-hosted p2p-file-distribution image-acceleration oci-artifacts nydus cncf-graduated container-registry ai-model-distribution containers devops linux docker kubernetes

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Member repositories

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