# koding/koding

The Simplest Way to Manage Your Entire Dev Infrastructure!

Repository: https://github.com/koding/koding
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/koding
Homepage: https://www.koding.com
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: cloud, ide, development, orchestration, development-environment, development-workflow
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-08-15T05:11:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4448, "days_push": 1479, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2174, forks 606 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:22.034557+00:00)

## What it is
Koding is an open-source development platform that orchestrates cloud-based dev environments, letting teams define, share, and spin up full-stack project environments as code (stack templates backed by Terraform). It provides a web interface for provisioning VMs across cloud providers, sharing environments, and collaborating, while developers keep using their own local IDE and terminal.

## Use cases
- spin up reproducible dev environments for my team in the cloud
- manage dev infrastructure as code with stack templates
- onboard new developers to a project in minutes
- share cloud VMs and pair program with teammates
- provision AWS/Azure/GCP dev environments from a YAML stack file
- self-host a cloud development platform on-premises
- give my team consistent dev environments without Docker containers

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted platform to provision and share full cloud VM dev environments across a team
- you need stack-as-code templates spanning multiple VMs and cloud providers
- you want developers to keep their local IDE while coding on cloud machines

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the company shut down in 2018 and the project has seen no meaningful development
- you just want lightweight containerized dev environments (use Dev Containers, DevPod, or Coder instead)
- you need a browser-based IDE as the core experience
- you want a simple single-developer setup without team/infrastructure management

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cloud, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools, configuration-management, ssh
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, go, cross-platform
- tags: dev-environments, cloud-ide, development-environments, stack-templates, terraform, team-collaboration, vm-provisioning, discontinued, devops, automation, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- koding/koding (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:22.034557+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 2026-08-30T02:48:59.289344+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/koding/koding (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:22.034557+00:00, sha c696c79d5a90)
  - homepage: https://www.koding.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:06.916671+00:00, sha f95dcda24928)
  - site_page: https://www.koding.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:06.919095+00:00, sha 0457324adc47)
  - site_page: https://www.koding.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:06.920623+00:00, sha e83f88a562d3)
  - site_page: https://www.koding.com/docs/home (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:06.922002+00:00, sha 96bdb783b9da)
  - site_page: https://www.koding.com/docs/creating-an-aws-stack (fetched 2026-08-29T10:29:06.923441+00:00, sha c4d77df84e9f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.