Moby
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
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: 5
- age_days: 4975
- days_rel: 21
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 84
Adoption not part of the score
72002 stars · 19207 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Moby is an open-source collaborative project created by Docker that provides a modular toolkit of components for assembling container-based systems, including build tools, a container runtime, registry, and orchestration components. It serves as the upstream for Docker and is aimed at developers and integrators building custom container platforms rather than end users.
Use cases
- build a custom container runtime or platform
- hack on the upstream code behind Docker
- assemble container-based systems from modular components
- experiment with container networking and libnetwork
- learn how container engines work internally
- embed container functionality into another tool
When to choose
- you are building a container platform or tooling on top of Docker's open components
- you want to contribute to or study the Docker upstream codebase
- you need swappable container components with well-defined APIs
When to avoid
- you just want a supported end-user container tool - install Docker or Podman instead
- you need commercial support for production container workloads
- you want a simple CLI for running containers without building systems
Facets
framework · maturity active
container-runtime build-tool developer-tools container-orchestration cloud-computing developer-tools go cross-platform docker containers containerization upstream toolkit devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/moby/moby · fetched 2026-08-28 · 715bd254d445
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| moby/moby | main | 94 |
| moby/libnetwork | mirror | 23 |
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