# weaveworks/ignite

Ignite a Firecracker microVM

Repository: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/weaveworks-ignite
Homepage: https://ignite.readthedocs.org
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: firecracker, kvm, docker, containers, oci, cloud-native
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-12-07T17:28:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2709, "days_push": 1000, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3529, forks 233 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:08.891813+00:00)

## What it is
Weave Ignite is a VM manager that runs Firecracker microVMs from OCI/Docker images with a container-like UX and declarative GitOps management. It is now deprecated and no longer maintained, with Flintlock suggested as a successor.

## Use cases
- run docker images as firecracker microvms
- boot lightweight vms in milliseconds from oci images
- manage fleets of vms declaratively with gitops
- replace docker run with vm isolation for untrusted workloads
- build vm images with docker build instead of qcow2 tooling

## When to choose
- you need container-like ergonomics for firecracker microvms on linux with KVM
- you want to run OCI images as isolated VMs with fast boot times

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool - the project is deprecated and unmaintained
- you are not on Linux with KVM available
- you need macOS or Windows host support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-runtime, deployment, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: cli, go
- tags: firecracker, microvm, oci-images, gitops, kvm, virtualization, deprecated, containers, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- weaveworks/ignite (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.891813+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 2026-08-29T18:35:08.451511+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.891813+00:00, sha 0ef9d6bd9175)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.