# nanobox-io/nanobox

The ideal platform for developers

Repository: https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nanobox
Homepage: https://nanobox.io
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: deployment, development-environment, cli, docker, virtualbox, golang, developer-tools, paas-framework, nanobox
Last push: 2019-10-21T20:03:10+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": 4139, "days_push": 2508, "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 1633, forks 90 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:14.293413+00:00)

## What it is
Nanobox is a Go CLI tool that automates creation of isolated, repeatable development and production environments using VirtualBox and Docker, configured via a boxfile.yml. It provisions identical infrastructure locally and on production platforms so apps behave the same everywhere.

## Use cases
- spin up a reproducible local dev environment for my app
- deploy my app to production with the same setup as local
- stop configuring environments and just code
- share a project that works identically for all collaborators
- manage environment variables and remotes from the CLI
- run an interactive console inside an app component

## When to choose
- you want local/production environment parity with a single yaml config
- you prefer a PaaS-like deploy workflow from your terminal
- your team uses VirtualBox+Docker-based dev environments

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software (last release 2019, project appears abandoned)
- you already use Docker Compose or modern container tooling
- you deploy to Kubernetes or serverless platforms

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, cli, container-runtime, developer-tools, configuration-management
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing
- platform: cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: paas, virtualbox, development-environment, local-production-parity, boxfile, devops, automation, docker

## Member repositories
- nanobox-io/nanobox (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:14.293413+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 2026-08-30T03:47:20.868652+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:14.293413+00:00, sha 1effa778dc3f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.