coreos/torus
Torus Distributed Storage observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
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: 3967
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3163
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1754 stars · 168 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Torus is a distributed storage system written in Go that pools resources across multiple nodes, coordinated consistently through etcd using append-only primitives and consistent-hash sharding. It ships with a block-device volume plugin and was designed to run easily on top of Kubernetes.
Use cases
- run a distributed block storage cluster on bare metal
- provide persistent volumes to Kubernetes pods via FlexVolumes
- pool disk resources across multiple nodes into one storage system
- store replicated block-device volumes coordinated by etcd
- experiment with hash-ring based storage sharding
When to choose
- you are studying distributed storage system design or forking the project
- you need a simple etcd-coordinated block storage prototype for research
When to avoid
- you need production storage for Kubernetes - development stopped in Feb 2017
- you want an actively maintained storage solution like Ceph, Gluster, or Rook
- you need file or object storage semantics beyond block volumes
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
file-system database container-orchestration microservices infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing self-hosted go self-hosted distributed-storage block-storage etcd kubernetes-storage hash-ring abandoned-project containers linux docker kubernetes
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/coreos/torus · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9669a0040b7c
- homepage: https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 499b1d89ecea
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/japan-buy · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4af2ed97e8c4
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/social · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce84df56bf36
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7c09ae1da5b9
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/our-culture · fetched 2026-08-29 · c9cf08f6aee8
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/analysts · fetched 2026-08-29 · 954f0dd7a69e
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/newsroom · fetched 2026-08-29 · 273e4968f0fd
- site_page: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5c3c49ec0c5e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| coreos/torus | main | 10 |
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