# gokrazy/gokrazy

turn your Go program(s) into an appliance running on the Raspberry Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi 5, Pi Zero 2 W, or PCs (x86_64 or ARM64)!

Repository: https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gokrazy
Homepage: https://gokrazy.org
Language: JavaScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: linux, golang, raspberrypi, raspberry-pi
Last push: 2026-08-04T23:52:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3497, "days_push": 29, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3481, forks 139 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:06.863491+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, infrastructure-as-code, embedded, security, self-hosted
- domain: embedded-systems, operating-systems, security, developer-tools
- platform: iot, go, embedded
- tags: go-appliance, minimal-linux, raspberry-pi, init-system, read-only-filesystem, single-purpose-server, devops, linux, arm64

## Member repositories
- gokrazy/gokrazy (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.863491+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 2026-08-29T18:36:26.869100+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.863491+00:00, sha c0494ddee76c)
  - homepage: https://gokrazy.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:35.421250+00:00, sha 93872425a349)
  - site_page: https://gokrazy.org/quickstart/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:35.423708+00:00, sha 5d87c02dd823)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.