# cloudfoundry-attic/vcap

Cloud Foundry - the open platform as a service project

Repository: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-attic/vcap
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vcap
Homepage: http://www.cloudfoundry.org
Language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2013-08-28T00:38:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5622, "days_push": 4754, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1304, forks 347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:18.508049+00:00)

## What it is
VCAP is the original open-source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service codebase, comprising core components such as the cloud controller, router, DEA, and health manager. It lets developers deploy and scale applications across multiple frameworks, services, and clouds.

## Use cases
- self-host a platform as a service for deploying apps
- deploy applications with a single push command without managing infrastructure
- run a multi-vm PaaS with routers, cloud controllers, and health managers
- study the original Cloud Foundry architecture and components
- set up a local development PaaS environment in a VM

## When to choose
- you need to run or study the historical original Cloud Foundry VCAP codebase
- you are maintaining a legacy Cloud Foundry v1 deployment on Ubuntu
- you want to understand how early PaaS components like DEA and cloud controller worked

## When to avoid
- you want a modern, actively maintained Cloud Foundry deployment - use current Cloud Foundry or Korifi projects instead
- you are deploying cloud-native apps on Kubernetes - use Kubernetes-native tooling
- you need a supported PaaS for production today - this repo is archived and unmaintained since 2013

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, cloud, microservices, container-orchestration
- domain: cloud-computing, self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, ruby
- tags: paas, cloud-foundry, vcap, legacy, platform-as-a-service, app-deployment, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- cloudfoundry-attic/vcap (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.508049+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 2026-08-30T04:51:07.092594+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-attic/vcap (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.508049+00:00, sha 8b292f7632dd)
  - homepage: http://www.cloudfoundry.org (fetched 2026-08-29T12:09:03.583376+00:00, sha d01448320f6c)
  - site_page: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/get-started (fetched 2026-08-29T12:09:03.593324+00:00, sha 29f636287068)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.