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zstackio/zstack

ZStack - the open-source IaaS software http://zstack.org (国内用户请至 http://zstack.io) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/zstackio/zstack · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

77/100

  • Activity 99
  • 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: 4169
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1394 stars · 398 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

ZStack is an open-source IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) platform for automating datacenters, managing compute, storage, and networking resources entirely through APIs. It offers a web UI and CLI for building private or public clouds, scaling from a single-machine POC to hundreds of thousands of physical servers.

Use cases

  • build a private cloud on my own hardware
  • open-source alternative to OpenStack
  • manage virtual machines and storage via API
  • automate datacenter compute and networking
  • set up a quick IaaS POC on one Linux machine
  • run a scalable public cloud platform

When to choose

  • you want a download-and-run IaaS with no scattered configurations or third-party service dependencies
  • you need extreme scalability (hundreds of thousands of hosts, millions of VMs) from a single management node
  • you prefer API-driven, software-defined datacenter management with a plugin architecture

When to avoid

  • you only need container orchestration rather than VM-based IaaS (use Kubernetes instead)
  • you want a lightweight desktop or single-VM hypervisor tool
  • your team is committed to an existing OpenStack or VMware deployment

Facets

application · maturity active

cloud api-framework web-framework plugin-system workflow-automation monitoring self-hosted cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted microservices jvm self-hosted iaas software-defined-datacenter vm-management openstack-alternative private-cloud hypervisor-management virtualization devops linux web-server docker

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RepositoryRoleHealth v2
zstackio/zstackmain77

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