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

gokrazy is a minimal appliance platform that turns Go programs into self-contained systems running on Raspberry Pi or x86_64/ARM64 PCs, replacing a traditional Linux distribution with a minimal Go userland. It provides a minimal init system, updater, DHCP, and NTP, with a read-only root filesystem and no default shell access for a drastically reduced attack surface.

Use cases

• deploy a Go program as a dedicated appliance on a Raspberry Pi
• run a single-purpose home server without maintaining a Linux distribution
• build a minimal embedded system entirely in Go
• reduce security patching burden on headless devices
• flash an SD card with a custom Go-based system image
• run Go services on a Pi Zero 2 W or Pi 5

When to choose

• your workload is written in Go and fits an appliance model
• you want minimal maintenance and a small attack surface on a Pi or PC
• you prefer managing everything as Go modules with fast deploy loops

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose Linux distro with shells, package managers, or non-Go software
• your application depends on C libraries or CGO
• you need interactive multi-user server functionality out of the box

Facets

infra-config · maturity active

deployment infrastructure-as-code embedded security self-hosted embedded-systems operating-systems security developer-tools iot go embedded go-appliance minimal-linux raspberry-pi init-system read-only-filesystem single-purpose-server devops linux arm64

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