# openstack/kolla

Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.

Repository: https://github.com/openstack/kolla
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kolla
Homepage: https://opendev.org/openstack/kolla
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-09-02T09:47:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4354, "days_push": 0, "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 1227, forks 569 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:15.852034+00:00)

## What it is
Kolla is an OpenStack project that builds production-ready container images for OpenStack services and provides tooling to create them. It works alongside kolla-ansible, which deploys OpenStack clouds on bare metal or virtual machines using those containers.

## Use cases
- deploy a private OpenStack cloud with containers
- build custom production-ready Docker images for OpenStack services
- install OpenStack on bare metal using Ansible
- run a self-hosted IaaS cloud
- customize OpenStack service configuration for my deployment
- deploy OpenStack quickly with sensible defaults

## When to choose
- you want to operate an OpenStack cloud with containerized services
- you need Ansible-based deployment of OpenStack on bare metal or VMs
- you want curated, customizable container images for OpenStack services

## When to avoid
- you need a simple single-node container platform without OpenStack
- you deploy OpenStack on Kubernetes and prefer a Kubernetes operator
- you only want to consume prebuilt images without building your own for production

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: stable
- function: container-runtime, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, cloud
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, self-hosted
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: openstack, ansible, container-images, cloud-deployment, iaas, devops, containers, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- openstack/kolla (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:15.852034+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 2026-08-30T06:15:12.262492+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openstack/kolla (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:15.852034+00:00, sha 28f9016dbb1e)
  - homepage: https://opendev.org/openstack/kolla (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:10.394139+00:00, sha 0b697c126758)
  - site_page: https://opendev.org/openstack/kolla/commit/7384f7eae548f2c5720675140e447b621e99c2e9 (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:10.403283+00:00, sha 3a61d19b1af1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.