# ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster

Pinset orchestration for IPFS

Repository: https://github.com/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ipfs-cluster
Homepage: https://ipfscluster.io
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ipfs, ipfs-cluster, libp2p
Last push: 2026-06-29T15:20:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 90, release rhythm 59, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3715, "days_push": 65, "days_rel": 114, "gap_med": 152.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1558, forks 306 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:03.453414+00:00)

## What it is
IPFS Cluster is a distributed application that orchestrates pinsets across a swarm of IPFS daemons, allocating, replicating and tracking a global pinset among multiple peers. It ships as a cluster service daemon, a CLI client (ipfs-cluster-ctl), and a follower peer application (ipfs-cluster-follow).

## Use cases
- replicate pins across multiple IPFS nodes for redundancy
- manage a shared global pinset across a cluster of IPFS daemons
- run a distributed pinning service like nft.storage or web3.storage
- balance pin allocation across peers by free storage and region
- track and retry pinning of millions of CIDs asynchronously
- run a follower peer to contribute storage to a public cluster

## When to choose
- you operate multiple IPFS daemons and need automated pin replication and tracking
- you need a decentralized, conflict-free pinset with no central server
- you want a REST API and CLI to manage pins at scale

## When to avoid
- you run a single IPFS node and just need basic pinning
- you need general-purpose file storage without IPFS
- you want a managed pinning service without operating infrastructure

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: p2p, deployment, api-framework, cli
- domain: microservices, files, self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: windows, go, cli, self-hosted
- tags: ipfs, pinset-orchestration, libp2p, content-addressed-storage, distributed-pinset, data-redundancy, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.453414+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 2026-08-30T04:29:54.579261+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:03.453414+00:00, sha fb748ff70d50)
  - homepage: https://ipfscluster.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:29:48.241973+00:00, sha a6e2bc4df60b)
  - site_page: https://ipfscluster.io/documentation (fetched 2026-08-29T11:29:48.250988+00:00, sha 7eac75fc5eb0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.