Karaf provides dual polymorphic container and application bootstrapping paradigms to
the Enterprise.
Focus on your business code and application, Karaf deals with the rest
Modern Container
Karaf can run as a standalone container, supporting a wide range of applications and
technologies.
Enterprise Ready
Karaf provides enterprise ready features: shell console, remote access, hot deployment,
dynamic configuration and many more.
karaf projects provide additional features like clustering, complete monitoring and
alerting, application repository.
Turnkey embedded mode
Run anywhere (on any machine with Java, cloud, docker images) using custom container, scripts or docker images.
Karaf Container 4.2.0.M1 has been released! (4/11/17)
Karaf Container 4.2.0.M1 is a technical preview of the 4.2.x series. It's not yet a GA release. It brings a lot of improvements and new features, including Java 9 support.
Karaf Cellar 4.1.1 has been released! (14/10/17)
Apache Karaf Cellar 4.1.1 is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x series including important bug fixes on the cluster features commands.
Karaf Decanter 1.4.0 has been released! (23/7/17)
Apache Karaf Decanter 1.4.0 is a new major release on the Decanter 1.x serie including bug fixes and couple of new features like the new Apache Camel Event Notifier.
Karaf Cellar 4.0.4 has been released! (15/5/17)
Apache Karaf Cellar 4.0.4 is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x serie including important bug fixes.
Karaf Cellar 4.1.0 has been released! (15/5/17)
Apache Karaf Cellar 4.1.0 is the first release in the Cellar 4.1.x serie, fully compatible with Karaf 4.1.x and providing important improvements and bug fixes.
Karaf Container 4.1.0 has been released! (04/02/17)
Apache Karaf 4.1.0 is the first release of the new 4.1.x serie. It brings lot of new features (new shell console, improvements of the Karaf Features system, better Maven artifacts resolution, improved web container, ...).
Karaf Cellar 4.0.3 has been released! (31/10/16)
Apache Karaf Cellar 4.0.3 is a maintenance release on the Cellar 4.x serie including important bug fixes.
Karaf is your project !
Karaf is an Apache Software Foundation project,
available under the Apache v2 license.
It's a complete open community, always listening proposals and comments. Sources, mailing lists, issue tracker: it's fully open, you can access
directly.
We also love contributions: don't hesitate to contribute.