---
license: odc-by
pretty_name: The Stack v3 DevOps Corpus
size_categories:
  - 10M<n<100M
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - code
tags:
  - infrastructure-as-code
  - devops
  - kubernetes
  - helm
  - terraform
  - ansible
  - docker
  - github-actions
  - sre
configs:
  - config_name: helm_chart
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/helm_chart/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: terraform_module
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/terraform_module/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: manifest_set
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/manifest_set/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: ansible_role
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/ansible_role/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: dockerfile
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/dockerfile/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: workflow
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/workflow/train-*.parquet
  - config_name: compose
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/compose/train-*.parquet
---

# The Stack v3 DevOps Corpus

13,234,862 complete infrastructure units extracted from
[The Stack v3](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceCode/stack-v3-train),
grouped into seven classes and gated on content rather than popularity.

A unit is not a file, it is the thing an engineer would actually run: a Helm chart
arrives with its `Chart.yaml`, `values.yaml` and every template; a Terraform module
with all of its `.tf` files; an Ansible role with its tasks, defaults and handlers.
That is only possible because The Stack v3 groups rows by repository, which v2 did
not.

## Why this exists

Language detection cannot find infrastructure code. Helm templates, Kubernetes
manifests, Ansible playbooks, CI pipelines and Prometheus rules are all just
`YAML` to `go-enry`, and **59.6% of the YAML in the corpus is not infrastructure
at all** (Spring config, i18n plurals, Drupal exports, dbt models, Conda
environments). Path heuristics do not fix it either: a directory-name rule finds
only **33% of real Kubernetes manifests** and is **57% precise**.

So classification here is content-first. Every YAML unit was parsed and inspected,
and the resulting labels were scored against an independent YAML parser rather
than against more regexes:

| Class | Precision | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| kubernetes | 97.8% | 97.2% |
| github_actions | 98.9% | 100.0% |
| compose | 97.2% | 99.3% |
| helm | 93.9% (structural) | not measurable, templates are not valid YAML |
| ansible | 86.4% | 90.3% |
| terraform | 98.9% (extension-anchored) | |
| dockerfile | 99.7% (extension-anchored) | |

Roughly half of all Helm and Ansible labels come from repository context alone:
a `values.yaml` or a `defaults/main.yml` is a bare tree of variables, and no
amount of content inspection can tell you what it belongs to.

## Configs

| Config | Units | Parquet | What a unit is |
|---|---|---|---|
| `helm_chart` | 65,422 | 0.15 GB | Complete charts: `Chart.yaml` plus templates, and `values.yaml` where present |
| `terraform_module` | 779,730 | 1.06 GB | Directories with two or more `.tf` files declaring real blocks |
| `manifest_set` | 743,191 | 0.42 GB | Directories of two or more Kubernetes manifests that parse |
| `ansible_role` | 444,411 | 0.34 GB | Roles with a verifiable task list, plus defaults, handlers and templates |
| `dockerfile` | 4,609,451 | 1.14 GB | Single files containing real Dockerfile instructions |
| `workflow` | 3,380,313 | 1.41 GB | GitHub Actions workflows with triggers and jobs |
| `compose` | 3,212,344 | 0.87 GB | Docker Compose files with a services mapping |
| **total** | **13,234,862** | **5.40 GB** | |

### What is inside each one

- **`helm_chart`** the scarcest and richest class. `Chart.yaml`, `values.yaml`
  where present, every template and helper. Median 4 templates, up to 56.
- **`terraform_module`** a directory of two or more `.tf` files that declare real
  resources, modules, variables or outputs. Median 3 files. 70.7% declare
  variables, 47.8% outputs.
- **`manifest_set`** a directory of two or more Kubernetes manifests that parse.
  Median 3. Most common kinds: Deployment, Service, Kustomization, ConfigMap,
  Ingress, PersistentVolumeClaim, Secret.
- **`ansible_role`** `tasks/`, and whichever of `defaults/`, `handlers/`, `vars/`,
  `meta/`, `templates/`, `files/` the role ships. 24.6% carry defaults.
- **`dockerfile`** one file with real instructions. Median 8 instructions,
  20.3% multi-stage.
- **`workflow`** one GitHub Actions workflow with triggers and jobs. Median 1 job
  and 5 steps.
- **`compose`** one Compose file with a services mapping. Median 2 services.

### Using it

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

charts = load_dataset("Helmcode/stack-v3-devops", "helm_chart", split="train")
```

Charts that render standalone, which is what an executable benchmark needs:

```python
renderable = charts.filter(lambda row: row["flags"]["self_contained"])
```

Stream the large configs instead of downloading them:

```python
dockerfiles = load_dataset(
    "Helmcode/stack-v3-devops", "dockerfile", split="train", streaming=True
)
hardened = (row for row in dockerfiles if row["flags"]["pins_digest"])
```

Reconstruct a unit as files on disk, which is how you feed it to `helm lint`,
`terraform validate` or `hadolint`:

```python
import pathlib

def materialise(row, root):
    prefix = row["unit_prefix"]
    for entry in row["files"]:
        relative = entry["path"][len(prefix):].lstrip("/") if prefix else entry["path"]
        target = pathlib.Path(root, relative or pathlib.Path(entry["path"]).name)
        target.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        target.write_text(entry["content"])

materialise(charts[0], "/tmp/chart")
```

Restrict to units whose every file carries a permissive license header, but read
the licensing section first, because that is not the same as permissively
licensed code:

```python
permissive = charts.filter(lambda row: row["flags"]["all_permissive"])
```

### What it is good for

- **Evaluation.** Complete, self-contained units are what an executable benchmark
  needs: render the chart, validate the module, lint the Dockerfile, and score on
  whether real tools accept the output.
- **Fine-tuning on infrastructure tasks**, where the unit boundary matters more
  than the file: a model that writes one template without `values.yaml` has not
  written a chart.
- **Measuring practice.** The flags make questions like "what share of public
  Dockerfiles run as root" answerable in one pass instead of a research project.

It is **not** a pretraining corpus. 5.4 GB is small, and the classes are
deliberately unbalanced towards what exists rather than what would balance nicely.

## Schema

Every config shares a base schema and adds its own `quality` and `flags` structs.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `unit_type` | string | one of the seven config names |
| `repo_path` | string | `owner/name`, for attribution |
| `commit_id` | string | the exact commit the files came from |
| `stars` | int32 | GitHub stars at crawl time |
| `unit_prefix` | string | directory the unit was rooted at, `""` for repo root |
| `shard` | int32 | source shard, for reproducibility |
| `license_types` | list\<string\> | distinct `license_type` values across the unit's files |
| `files` | list\<struct\> | `path`, `content`, `license_type`, `detected_licenses`, `size_bytes` |
| `quality` | struct | per class: template counts, stage counts, service counts, manifest kinds |
| `flags` | struct | derived booleans, below |

Flags worth knowing about:

- `self_contained` (helm_chart): the chart does not call a helper it lacks.
  **72.9%** of charts qualify; the rest cannot be rendered
  by `helm template` on their own.
- `pins_digest` / `uses_latest_tag` (dockerfile): supply-chain hygiene.
- `has_unpinned_action` (workflow): actions referenced by tag or branch instead of
  a commit SHA.
- `all_permissive`: every file in the unit is labelled `permissive`. Read the
  licensing section before relying on this.

## What this corpus says about real-world infrastructure

Measured across every unit, not a sample:

- **89.0% of Dockerfiles set no `USER`**, so the container runs as root
- **98.6% of Dockerfiles declare no `HEALTHCHECK`**
- **89.5% of workflows declare no `permissions`**, inheriting the default token scope
- **91.1% of Compose files define no healthcheck**
- 20.3% of Dockerfiles are multi-stage
- Top Kubernetes kinds: Deployment, Service, Kustomization, ConfigMap, Ingress

That is the baseline any model trained on public infrastructure code will imitate,
which is the point of publishing it as a measurable corpus rather than a curated
showcase.

## Provenance and how it was built

Built with [helmcode/stack-slice](https://github.com/helmcode/stack-slice)
(Apache-2.0). The corpus was surveyed and extracted **without downloading the
4.71 TB dataset**: `content` is 96.9% of every shard, so a metadata-only pass
costs 1% of the bytes, and extraction streams shards over HTTP range requests
without ever storing one.

- Source revision: **`de81e3ca7151`** of `HuggingFaceCode/stack-v3-train`
- Shards swept: **8,196 of 8,196**, covering 157.9M repositories
- Forks skipped, so units come from the repository that authored them
- Re-filtered for opt-out against revision **`d7bc7991ea32`**
  (see Licensing)

Gates are content-based, never popularity-based: a chart must have parseable
metadata, two or more templates and actual templating; a Terraform module must
declare real blocks and not be machine-generated; an Ansible role must have a task
list a parser accepts; a manifest set must have two or more manifests that load.

## Licensing, and a finding you should not skip

This dataset is released under **ODC-By 1.0**, inherited from The Stack v3.
**The code inside remains under its original licenses**, and `repo_path` plus
`commit_id` are included on every unit precisely so attribution is possible.

**The `license_type` labels are header-based, not repository-based.** In the source
corpus only 3.41% of files are labelled `permissive` and 98.2% of repositories
contain none at all. Apache-2.0 is detected 26,624 times against MIT's 442, which
inverts their real popularity on GitHub: the Apache convention puts a license
header in every source file, while MIT projects ship a single root `LICENSE`. So
`license_type == permissive` means **"this file carries an inline license header"**,
not "this file comes from a permissively licensed project".

Two consequences:

1. Filtering to `permissive` does not give you a representative permissive
   corpus, it gives you an Apache-2.0-skewed slice.
2. The remaining `no_license` majority is code with **no license grant at all**,
   not code that is permissively licensed. Treat it accordingly.

The repository-level license cannot be recovered from within The Stack v3 either:
plain-text `LICENSE` files were dropped by its quality filter, so only 8 of 20,923
repositories in a sample shard ship one. A provably permissive subset needs
external enrichment keyed on `repo_path`.

**Opt-out.** Upstream applies opt-out removals in place and re-uploads. This
dataset was re-filtered by `repo_path` against `d7bc7991ea32`, dropping
9,439 units whose repositories had been removed. If you find your code
here, use the
[Am I in The Stack?](https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack) opt-out
process; we re-filter on each upstream patch release.

## Known limitations

- **The source corpus repeats file rows inside a repository**: 10.4% of
  repositories and 14.5% of all file rows, byte-identical by `content_id`. This
  dataset deduplicates by (path, content), removing 2,166,221 repeated
  files, and then **drops the 122,886 units that only met their
  gate because of that repetition** (a "set of two manifests" whose two manifests
  were the same file is not a set of two). Counts here are therefore lower than a
  naive extraction would report, and correctly so. Quality counters such as
  `templates`, `tf_files` and `manifests` are recomputed after deduplication, so
  they describe the files actually present.
- **27.1% of Helm charts cannot render standalone**
  because they call helpers they do not carry. Filter on `self_contained`.
- **Ansible precision is a floor, not a measurement.** "A list of mappings with
  Ansible-ish keys" also matches ordinary YAML lists, and role variable files are
  indistinguishable from any other mapping by content alone.
- `manifest_set` groups manifests by directory, which is a convention, not a
  deployment boundary.
- Stars are as of the crawl and 58-76% of units come from repositories with none.
  Popularity was deliberately not used as a gate; see the card's reasoning above.

## Updates and versioning

Upstream applies opt-out removals in place and re-uploads the whole dataset, which
means the source moves. This dataset therefore records both the revision it was
extracted from and the revision it was last compliance-filtered against, and both
appear above. When upstream ships a patch release we re-filter and push a new
version; the extraction itself is not repeated unless the tooling changes.

If you need byte-for-byte reproducibility, pin the dataset revision you loaded.

## Reproducing this dataset

Everything here was produced by [helmcode/stack-slice](https://github.com/helmcode/stack-slice):

```bash
# Survey the corpus for 179 MB of transfer, no download
python -m stackslice.scan --shards 24

# Score the classifier against an independent YAML parser
python -m stackslice.measure --shards 3

# Sweep and extract units (streams shards, stores nothing but output)
python -m stackslice.extract --shards 8196 --workers 12 --out units

# Re-filter for opt-out, deduplicate, add flags
python -m stackslice.finalize units --out units_final \
    --revision <target-revision> --uuid <shard-uuid>

# Convert to parquet, one config per class
python -m stackslice.publish units_final --out dataset
```

The full measurement record, including the findings quoted in this card, is in
[FINDINGS.md](https://github.com/helmcode/stack-slice/blob/main/FINDINGS.md).

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{stack_v3_devops,
  title  = {The Stack v3 DevOps Corpus},
  author = {Helmcode},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Helmcode/stack-v3-devops},
  note   = {Extracted from The Stack v3 with helmcode/stack-slice}
}
```

Please also cite the source corpus, [The Stack v3](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceCode/stack-v3-train).