dragonflyoss/nydus
Nydus - a reliable, high-performance on-demand load filesytem framework for container image and data distribution. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 83
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 32.0
- age_days: 2175
- days_rel: 33
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 15
Adoption not part of the score
1644 stars · 271 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Nydus is a Rust-based content-addressable filesystem framework implementing the RAFS format to accelerate container image and data distribution with on-demand chunk-level loading. It integrates with containerd, Docker, and Kubernetes via snapshotter plugins to dramatically reduce container cold-start time, storage, and network bandwidth.
Use cases
- speed up container cold start with on-demand image pulling
- reduce container image storage and network bandwidth costs
- convert OCI images to accelerated Nydus format
- run containers with lazy-loading filesystem in Kubernetes
- deduplicate image chunks across layers and images
- verify image data integrity and detect supply chain attacks at runtime
- accelerate serverless function code package loading
When to choose
- you need second-level container startup for large images
- you run Kubernetes or containerd at scale and want faster pulls
- you want chunk-level deduplication across images
- you need POSIX-compatible on-demand loading via EROFS, FUSE, or VirtioFS
When to avoid
- you only deploy tiny images where pull time is negligible
- your environment cannot install a custom snapshotter or kernel EROFS support
- you need a fully standard OCI-only workflow without extra tooling
Facets
framework · maturity stable
file-system container-runtime caching compression security developer-tools cloud-computing microservices self-hosted rust cloud self-hosted container-image on-demand-loading image-acceleration rafs erofs fuse snapshotter oci-images lazy-pull chunk-deduplication containers devops linux docker kubernetes
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus · fetched 2026-08-28 · d5a4b90c71f6
- homepage: https://nydus.dev/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 464cfd5dd34c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| dragonflyoss/nydus | main | 94 |
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