# kontena/kontena

The developer friendly container and micro services platform. Works on any cloud, easy to setup, simple to use.

Repository: https://github.com/kontena/kontena
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kontena
Homepage: https://www.kontena.io/
Language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: containers, microservices, docker, ruby, devops
Last push: 2019-02-19T12:12:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4182, "days_push": 2752, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1455, forks 122 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:46.782066+00:00)

## What it is
Kontena Classic is a developer-friendly open-source platform for orchestrating Docker containerized applications across any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, with built-in load balancing, overlay networking, private registry, and secrets management. The project is deprecated and no longer maintained; its successor is Kontena Pharos, a certified Kubernetes distribution.

## Use cases
- orchestrate docker containers across multiple hosts and availability zones
- deploy containerized apps with a heroku-like workflow without an ops team
- run a private docker image registry with built-in secrets storage
- get zero-downtime load balancing for microservices on any cloud
- set up a simple container platform without kubernetes complexity

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy deployment already built on Kontena Classic
- you need a historical reference for pre-kubernetes container orchestration design

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new container orchestration project - use Kubernetes or its managed distributions instead
- you need security updates or community support - the project is deprecated since 2019 and the company pivoted to Suptask
- you want long-term vendor commitment or an active roadmap

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, secrets-management, microservices, container-runtime
- domain: microservices, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: go, ruby, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: docker-orchestration, deprecated, kubernetes-alternative, heroku-like-deployment, coreos, weave-net, load-balancing, containers, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- kontena/kontena (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.782066+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 2026-08-30T04:35:38.888171+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kontena/kontena (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:46.782066+00:00, sha b247f3f8c881)
  - homepage: https://www.kontena.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:47.325725+00:00, sha 59aefbb3fabb)
  - site_page: https://www.suptask.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:47.333673+00:00, sha 5eaf731cac95)
  - site_page: https://www.suptask.com/features-and-how-it-works (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:47.335659+00:00, sha 429779797eb1)
  - site_page: https://www.suptask.com/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:47.328457+00:00, sha 7d23196cd276)
  - site_page: https://www.suptask.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:47.331495+00:00, sha ad864d104770)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.