crosbymichael/skydock
Service discovery via DNS for docker observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4608
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3495
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1051 stars · 82 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Skydock is a Go service that monitors Docker container lifecycle events and automatically registers container services as DNS records in SkyDNS, enabling standard DNS-based service discovery for Docker containers. It is now deprecated because modern Docker includes built-in DNS-based service discovery.
Use cases
- discover docker containers via dns queries
- auto-register docker containers in dns
- service discovery for legacy docker versions
- resolve container services by image name
- avoid client libraries for service discovery
- query srv records for dockerized services
When to choose
- running an old Docker version without built-in DNS discovery
- you need zero-code-change DNS-based discovery for legacy container setups
- you want a reference implementation of Docker event-driven DNS registration
When to avoid
- using any recent version of Docker, which has native DNS service discovery
- starting a new project needing service discovery
- you need multi-host discovery or active maintenance
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
service-discovery networking microservices monitoring microservices networking self-hosted go self-hosted docker skydns dns-discovery deprecated container-orchestration containers devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock · fetched 2026-08-28 · c2b349541d77
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| crosbymichael/skydock | main | 32 |
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