# rook/rook

Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

Repository: https://github.com/rook/rook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rook
Homepage: https://rook.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: storage, kubernetes, ceph, storage-cluster, docker, cloud-native, etcd, cncf
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:14:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3708, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 14.0, "n_releases_24m": 61}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13615, forks 2852 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:04.419566+00:00)

## What it is
Rook is an open-source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes that automates deployment, configuration, scaling, upgrading, and monitoring of Ceph distributed storage via a Kubernetes operator. It turns Ceph into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services providing file, block, and object storage to Kubernetes workloads.

## Use cases
- run ceph storage on kubernetes
- provide persistent volumes to kubernetes applications
- automate ceph cluster deployment and management
- self-healing distributed storage for containers
- provision block object and file storage in kubernetes
- hyperconverged storage on commodity hardware

## When to choose
- you need production-grade file, block, and object storage natively integrated with Kubernetes
- you want automated deployment, scaling, upgrades, and disaster recovery for Ceph
- you run Kubernetes on bare metal or VMs with local disks and need durable persistent storage
- you want a CNCF graduated, widely adopted storage solution

## When to avoid
- you only need simple single-node storage or hostPath volumes
- you have no raw block devices or local storage available in your cluster
- you use a managed cloud where cloud-native storage services suffice
- you need storage orchestration outside of Kubernetes

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: stable
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, monitoring, self-hosted, cloud
- domain: cloud-computing, databases, infrastructure-as-code, microservices
- platform: go, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: storage-orchestration, ceph, kubernetes-operator, block-storage, object-storage, distributed-storage, cncf, persistent-volumes, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- rook/rook (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:04.419566+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 2026-08-29T17:13:09.617309+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rook/rook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:04.419566+00:00, sha 6520a374bb39)
  - homepage: https://rook.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:43.820633+00:00, sha 85847827ec3d)
  - site_page: https://rook.io/docs/rook/latest-release (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:43.823003+00:00, sha 06e5da7a0471)
  - site_page: https://rook.io/docs/rook/latest-release/Getting-Started/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:43.824520+00:00, sha c9354546a40e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.