# wasmCloud/wasmCloud

wasmCloud is an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that enables teams to build, manage, and scale polyglot apps across any cloud, K8s, or edge.

Repository: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wasmcloud
Homepage: https://wasmcloud.com
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: webassembly, cloud-native, distributed, edge, platform, kubernetes, nats, wasm-native
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:56:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2148, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 8.0, "n_releases_24m": 57}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2421, forks 257 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:50.596269+00:00)

## What it is
wasmCloud is a CNCF incubating cloud native platform for building, deploying, and orchestrating WebAssembly component workloads across clouds, Kubernetes, datacenters, and edge environments. It runs polyglot microservices, functions, and agents as deny-by-default Wasm sandboxes with capability-based security, managed via the wash CLI and a Kubernetes operator.

## Use cases
- run webassembly microservices on kubernetes
- deploy polyglot apps across cloud and edge
- replace containers with secure wasm sandboxes
- scale-to-zero serverless workloads with no cold starts
- orchestrate distributed wasm components with nats
- run lightweight workloads on edge devices
- enforce capability-based security for services

## When to choose
- you want portable, ultra-dense workloads smaller and faster-starting than containers
- you need deny-by-default security with explicit capability grants
- you deploy across multiple clouds, regions, or edge with intermittent connectivity
- you want polyglot components (Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python) that interoperate
- you want to progressively adopt Wasm on existing Kubernetes tooling

## When to avoid
- your team relies heavily on legacy container ecosystems and OCI-only tooling
- you need full OS access, GPUs, or system-level features Wasm sandboxes restrict
- your workloads depend on libraries or runtimes that don't compile to Wasm components
- you need a battle-tested GA platform and can't tolerate evolving v2 APIs

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, microservices, wasm, security, cli, api-gateway
- domain: cloud-computing, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: rust, windows, cross-platform, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: webassembly, wasm-components, wasi, cncf, nats, edge-computing, polyglot, actor-model, kubernetes-operator, serverless, containers, devops, kubernetes, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- wasmCloud/wasmCloud (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:50.596269+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 2026-08-30T02:33:04.004775+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:50.596269+00:00, sha 078cbf1b2fa9)
  - homepage: https://wasmcloud.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.755186+00:00, sha a6225d1cb711)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.765186+00:00, sha 1954c86d5035)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/v1/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.767983+00:00, sha ad427e5a640a)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.772977+00:00, sha 8017e0cbc2d1)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/overview/workloads/components (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.775884+00:00, sha 006e6a008527)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/kubernetes-operator (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.778181+00:00, sha 783b9dd89075)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/v1/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.780393+00:00, sha 9241c87c7f89)
  - site_page: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.782749+00:00, sha 4d66829bd784)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/wasmcloud (fetched 2026-08-29T10:13:35.785433+00:00, sha dc0fc300acae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.