Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration and scheduling platform for declarative automation of workflows, data pipelines, infrastructure, and AI processes.

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🚀 Overview

Kestra is a powerful yet simple orchestration platform that lets you define workflows using declarative YAML, supporting both scheduled and real-time event-driven execution. It scales effortlessly to handle millions of workflows while integrating seamlessly with any tech stack via its vast plugin ecosystem.

The project solves key pain points in workflow orchestration like complex setups, high maintenance, and vendor lock-in found in tools like Airflow. By embracing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, it enables reliable, version-controlled automations that are easy to build, debug, and scale.

It's built for data engineers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and developers managing mission-critical processes across data, infra, ML/AI, and business logic. Kestra was created to merge the best of Airflow's flexibility and Google Workflows' simplicity into one elegant, open-source solution without compromises on performance or extensibility.

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✨ Key Features

• Declarative YAML workflows: Simple syntax for IaC, version control friendly, and easy to maintain
• Event-driven triggers: Schedules, webhooks, APIs, real-time events with millisecond latency
• 1200+ plugins: Integrations for databases, cloud services, languages (Python, Java, R, etc.), and custom development
• Intuitive UI: No-code builder, code editor with autocomplete, live topology, collaboration tools
• Scalable & resilient: High availability, retries, error handling, namespaces, subflows, fault tolerance
• Upcoming: Enhanced AI Copilot with custom models (Enterprise)

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vue.js, TypeScript, SCSS
• Backend: Java, Gradle
• Database: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Auth: Custom RBAC / LDAP, SCIM (Enterprise)
• Hosting: Docker, Kubernetes, Vercel/Cloudflare alternatives like AWS, GCP, Azure

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👥 Who Is This For?

This project is useful for:

• Data engineers who want to orchestrate scalable pipelines with minimal boilerplate
• DevOps teams looking for event-driven IaC automation across infra and ops
• Developers building reliable workflows for AI/ML, business processes, and CI/CD

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📸 Screenshots / Demo

• Live demo: https://kestra.io/docs/quickstart (Docker quickstart at localhost:8080)
• GitHub: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

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🔥 Project Status

• 🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

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❓ FAQ

Is this project free?

Open Source / Freemium (Core platform is free and open-source under Apache 2.0 for self-hosting; Pro/Enterprise subscriptions add advanced features, support, multi-tenancy; Kestra Cloud is managed pay-as-you-go.)

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Is the source code available?

Yes — https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

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Can I contribute?

Yes, help by reporting issues on GitHub, submitting PRs via the contributor guide (https://kestra.io/docs/contribute-to-kestra), developing plugins, or improving docs.

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📬 Contact & Links

• Website: https://kestra.io
• GitHub: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
• Twitter/X: https://x.com/kestra_io
• Email: hello@kestra.io

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