ehazlett/stellar

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1133 stars · 32 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Stellar is a simplified container runtime cluster system built on containerd, written in Go. It joins one or more nodes into an eventually consistent, masterless cluster designed for transient workloads and edge computing with unreliable connectivity.

Use cases

• run containers across a cluster of nodes without kubernetes complexity
• deploy container workloads at the edge with intermittent connectivity
• set up a simple multihost container runtime with DNS service discovery
• get automatic HTTPS and zero-downtime proxying for container services
• run a masterless container orchestrator that tolerates node failures
• canary deploy containerized services with health checks

When to choose

• you want simple container clustering without the complexity of Kubernetes or Swarm
• you run transient or edge workloads where nodes lack high-bandwidth, low-latency links
• you prefer a masterless, eventually consistent design that is easy to debug
• you already use containerd and want lightweight multihost networking and service discovery

When to avoid

• you need strong consistency guarantees or advanced scheduling features
• you require a large ecosystem, extensive tooling, or long-term vendor support
• you need a production-grade orchestrator with active development and community
• your workloads depend on Kubernetes-native features like operators or CRDs

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

container-orchestration container-runtime networking service-discovery proxy deployment infrastructure-as-code microservices cloud-computing go self-hosted containerd cni nats edge-computing masterless cluster orchestrator containers devops linux docker

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