# tailhook/vagga

Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons

Repository: https://github.com/tailhook/vagga
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vagga
Homepage: http://vagga.readthedocs.org
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, containers, linux
Last push: 2023-03-31T06:13:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4411, "days_push": 1251, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1891, forks 98 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:50.257619+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: container-runtime, developer-tools, cli, configuration-management
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: rust, cli
- tags: userspace-containers, development-environments, no-daemon, docker-alternative, process-management, containers, devops, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- tailhook/vagga (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.257619+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 2026-08-30T03:13:00.706539+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tailhook/vagga (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.257619+00:00, sha 0bb98eb267ae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.