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tailhook/vagga

Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/tailhook/vagga · homepage · Rust · MIT (permissive) 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: 4411
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1251
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1891 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Vagga is a fully userspace container engine written in Rust, inspired by Vagrant and Docker, specialized for creating reproducible development environments. It runs Linux containers without daemons or elevated privileges, running containerized processes as children of the current shell.

Use cases

  • run development environments in containers without root privileges
  • replace docker for local development workflows
  • run multi-process stacks like redis-python-nginx with one command
  • automatically build and version container images for dev environments
  • run containerized processes attached to the current shell

When to choose

  • you want containerized dev environments without a daemon or root privileges
  • you need reproducible, auto-rebuilt development environments on Linux
  • you prefer processes attached to your shell rather than attach/detach workflows

When to avoid

  • you need production-grade container orchestration or Kubernetes integration
  • you need a tool actively developed with frequent releases
  • you need non-Linux platforms or full virtualization

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

container-runtime developer-tools cli configuration-management developer-tools rust cli userspace-containers development-environments no-daemon docker-alternative process-management containers devops command-line linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
tailhook/vaggamain32

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