# Moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

Repository: https://github.com/moby/moby
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/moby
Homepage: https://mobyproject.org/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: docker, containers, go, golang
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:58:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 85, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4975, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 21, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 84}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 72002, forks 19207 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:21.124712+00:00)

## What it is
Moby is an open-source collaborative project created by Docker that provides a modular toolkit of components for assembling container-based systems, including build tools, a container runtime, registry, and orchestration components. It serves as the upstream for Docker and is aimed at developers and integrators building custom container platforms rather than end users.

## Use cases
- build a custom container runtime or platform
- hack on the upstream code behind Docker
- assemble container-based systems from modular components
- experiment with container networking and libnetwork
- learn how container engines work internally
- embed container functionality into another tool

## When to choose
- you are building a container platform or tooling on top of Docker's open components
- you want to contribute to or study the Docker upstream codebase
- you need swappable container components with well-defined APIs

## When to avoid
- you just want a supported end-user container tool - install Docker or Podman instead
- you need commercial support for production container workloads
- you want a simple CLI for running containers without building systems

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: container-runtime, build-tool, developer-tools, container-orchestration
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: docker, containers, containerization, upstream, toolkit, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- moby/moby (main) score 94
- moby/libnetwork (mirror) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.124712+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 2026-08-29T16:15:38.858140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/moby/moby (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.124712+00:00, sha 715bd254d445)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.