Habitat is automation
that travels with the app
Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
Habitat is an open source project, and we’d love for you to get involved.
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Why Habitat?
Freedom to run anywhere
Run greenfield and legacy applications anywhere, from bare metal to containers and PaaS. Habitat puts the focus on the app.
Support for production environments
Make your app production ready with monitoring, runtime configuration, rolling deployment, and more. Put an end to "last-mile" configuration nightmares.
Smart packaging for smart apps
Run fast, run smart with Habitat. Habitat apps are immutable and atomically deployed, with self-organizing peer relationships.
Working with Habitat
Habitat plays well with container technologies.
How does it work?
Habitat is unapologetically app-centric. It's designed with best practices for the modern application in mind.
Habitat gives you a packaging format and a runtime supervisor with deployment coordination and service discovery built in.
Habitat packages contain everything the app needs to run with no outside dependencies. They are isolated, immutable and auditable.
The Habitat supervisor knows the packaged app's peer relationships, upgrade strategy, and policies for restart and security. The supervisor is also responsible for runtime configuration and connecting to management services, such as monitoring.
Learn HabitatOur tutorials will get you started fast.
Liberate your legacy apps.
Package them with Habitat and run
anywhere. No rewrite required.
Give legacy apps the habitat they need to thrive in the modern computing ecosystem. They won't know they've left the data center, and there's no need to tell them.
Habitat promotes transparency
and team collaboration
Habitat plans and config files are simple to write. They're human-readable and can be stored in your version control system along with the app itself.
Habitat makes it easy for team members to define what's configurable about their app and expose that information to other apps and components. Working together just got a whole lot easier.
“…I think we have to pay particular attention to technologies that continuously deliver desired end-states, and across diverse production environments, otherwise we're just speeding up over-the-wall procedures.”
Mark Burgess - Author, creator of CFEngine, Emeritus Professor of Network and System Administration, Oslo University College
“Open source is at the core of the modern application principles powering today’s digital economy. Together, Habitat and DC/OS enable organizations to apply these principles — including autonomy, portability, and scale — to new and legacy applications alike…”
Tobi Knaup - Co-founder and CTO | Mesosphere
“By making it easy to build applications that run anywhere, the value of hybrid cloud platforms, containers, and their management can be fully realized. Habitat is an important step forward in enabling enterprise IT to fully benefit from the portability and efficiency of cloud computing.”
Jonathan Donaldson - Vice President of Software-Defined Infrastructure, Data Center Group | Intel
“Habitat's application automation combined with our container management platform gives development teams the ability to easily build, deploy, and manage their containerized applications on everything from bare metal to the cloud.”
Sheng Liang - CEO | Rancher Labs
“Open source projects like Habitat embrace the ability to help DevOps teams run their applications in containers everywhere. The community can take advantage of Habitat’s application-centric automation on CoreOS Linux and Tectonic across all their environments…”
Wei Dang - Head of Product | CoreOS