# OpenEBS

A popular & widely deployed Open Source Container Native Storage platform for Stateful Persistent Applications on Kubernetes.

Repository: https://github.com/openebs/openebs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openebs
Homepage: https://openebs.io
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: storage, storage-container, persistent-storage, docker, pod, devops, k8s, kubernetes, ebs, ebs-volumes, block-storage, openebs, containerization, persistent-workloads, cloud-native, filesystems, k8s-sig-storage, blockstorage, spdk, csi
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:15:34+00:00
Link (homepage): https://openebs.io

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3684, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 18, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9804, forks 985 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.283556+00:00)

## What it is
OpenEBS is an open-source container-native storage platform that provides persistent storage for stateful applications on Kubernetes. It offers LocalPV engines for direct node storage and Replicated PV engines (including Mayastor) for synchronous cross-node data replication, with features like snapshots, thin provisioning, and volume resizing.

## Use cases
- provision persistent volumes for kubernetes stateful apps
- replicated storage for databases on kubernetes
- local pv storage for cassandra or mongodb
- kubernetes csi storage driver
- run stateful workloads on bare metal kubernetes
- storage snapshots and volume resize in k8s

## When to choose
- you need dynamic persistent storage provisioning on Kubernetes
- you want storage-level replication for stateful apps like databases
- you run distributed databases that handle their own replication and want fast local volumes
- you want a CNCF-backed, widely deployed open-source storage solution

## When to avoid
- you need storage for non-Kubernetes environments
- you require enterprise vendor support contracts
- your workloads are entirely stateless and need no persistent volumes

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: active
- function: container-orchestration, cloud, self-hosted, deployment
- domain: cloud-computing, self-hosted, microservices
- platform: cloud, self-hosted
- tags: kubernetes-storage, csi-driver, persistent-volumes, block-storage, cloud-native-storage, localpv, mayastor, spdk, stateful-workloads, containers, devops, kubernetes, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- openebs/openebs (main) score 99
- openebs/mayastor (backend) score 100

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.283556+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 2026-08-29T17:20:58.510112+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openebs/openebs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.283556+00:00, sha c4a8f3000727)
  - homepage: https://openebs.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:57.090481+00:00, sha 7e20b97e07fb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.