# stepchowfun/toast

Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂

Repository: https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/stepchowfun-toast
Language: Rust
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ci, continuous-integration, dev-environment, development-environment, docker, containers, build-system, build-tool
Last push: 2026-08-26T09:26:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 46, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2692, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 149, "gap_med": 438, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1628, forks 39 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:13.236864+00:00)

## What it is
Toast is a Rust CLI tool that containerizes development and CI workflows by running tasks defined in a YAML 'toastfile' inside Docker containers. It caches each task as a Docker image tagged with a hash of its inputs, and can share a remote cache via a Docker registry.

## Use cases
- run build and test tasks in containers
- cache CI builds in a shared Docker registry
- set up reproducible development environments
- skip unchanged build steps with content-hash caching
- replace docker-compose-based dev workflows with task-based ones
- install dependencies and compile projects inside containers

## When to choose
- you want containerized, cacheable build/test tasks without learning Nix
- your team and CI should share one remote build cache
- you prefer shell commands like apt-get over Nix derivations

## When to avoid
- you need multi-container orchestration like Docker Compose provides
- you want fully reproducible builds via functional package management (use Nix)
- your project doesn't use Docker

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: build-tool, ci-cd, container-runtime, caching, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, rust
- tags: docker, task-runner, reproducible-builds, remote-cache, toastfile, devops, containers, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- stepchowfun/toast (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:13.236864+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 2026-08-30T03:48:20.924016+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:13.236864+00:00, sha 62cd532ddad5)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/toast (fetched 2026-08-29T11:20:55.427561+00:00, sha eb6a7321b930)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.