# rigdev/rig

The DevEx & Application-layer for your Internal Developer Platform ⛵

Repository: https://github.com/rigdev/rig
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rigdev-rig
Homepage: https://rig.dev
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: application-platform, cli, deployment, docker, github-actions, golang, k8s, kubernetes, open-source
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-01-07T09:13:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 40, longevity 78
- inputs: {"age_days": 1097, "days_push": 603, "days_rel": 666, "gap_med": 3.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1066, forks 50 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:27.119581+00:00)

## What it is
Rig is a self-hosted, open-source service-lifecycle platform for Kubernetes that provides a developer-friendly deployment engine, dashboard, CLI, and operator for rolling out, managing, debugging, and scaling applications. It acts as the application layer of an Internal Developer Platform, with a plugin framework and simple CLI commands for CI/CD integration.

## Use cases
- simplify deploying and rolling out services on kubernetes
- build an internal developer platform for my team
- give developers a friendly UI and CLI to manage k8s apps
- debug and scale applications running in a kubernetes cluster
- integrate kubernetes deployments into a ci/cd pipeline
- self-host a developer platform in my own cluster
- customize deployment behavior with plugins

## When to choose
- you run Kubernetes and want to abstract its complexity away from application developers
- you want a self-hosted IDP application layer with a CLI, dashboard, and operator
- you need simple CLI commands to drive deployments from CI/CD pipelines
- you want an extensible platform with a plugin framework for custom infrastructure integrations

## When to avoid
- you are not using Kubernetes - Rig is tightly coupled to k8s
- you need a fully managed SaaS deployment platform rather than self-hosted tooling
- you require long-term vendor-backed support - Rig.dev has been acquired by Harness, which took exclusive rights to the IP, so the open-source project's future is uncertain
- you only need raw kubectl/Helm without an additional abstraction layer

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: deployment, container-orchestration, cli, developer-tools, workflow-automation, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: cli, self-hosted, go, cloud
- tags: internal-developer-platform, kubernetes-operator, helm-charts, platform-engineering, service-lifecycle, rollout-engine, cicd-integration, plugin-framework, harness-acquired, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker

## Member repositories
- rigdev/rig (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.119581+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 2026-08-30T06:55:26.652943+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rigdev/rig (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.119581+00:00, sha 5ab792cfbe06)
  - homepage: https://rig.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T12:57:13.919398+00:00, sha a13a3fb8e0e8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.