Kestra
Open source declarative orchestration platform for building, running and governing data, E
Kestra is an open source, declarative, event-driven orchestration platform for defining workflows in YAML and running them across cloud, data, infrastructure, and AI use cases. It addresses the need to standardize and govern automation across teams by providing a single engine for scheduling, execution control, monitoring, and recovery, with workflows versionable in Git and manageable through both code and a UI.
Core capabilities include time-based and event-driven triggers (cron, webhooks, messages), subflows, backfills, retries, concurrency limits, and execution timelines with logs, outputs, and metrics. Tasks can run in Python, SQL, R, Bash, or containers without rewriting existing scripts. The platform is API-first with Terraform integration and Git sync, and it offers an AI Copilot and agent support for building and running workflows. Extensibility comes through more than 2,100 plugins covering databases, cloud services, CI/CD, messaging, and core control-flow functions, with the option to build custom plugins.
Kestra targets data, infrastructure, and AI teams. It is available as open source software self-hosted on Docker or Kubernetes under a free forever plan with unlimited executions, an Enterprise Edition adding SSO, RBAC, audit logs, multi-tenancy, isolated workers, dedicated task runners, and SLA-backed support for cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments, and a managed Cloud platform.
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