argoproj/argo-workflows

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Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes, implemented as a Kubernetes CRD. It lets users define multi-step workflows as sequences of tasks or DAGs where each step is a container, and is a CNCF graduated project.

Use cases

• run machine learning pipelines on kubernetes
• orchestrate data and batch processing jobs
• automate infrastructure tasks as workflows
• build ci/cd pipelines with containers
• run parallel compute-intensive jobs on k8s
• define dag-based task dependencies in kubernetes

When to choose

• you need to orchestrate container-based parallel jobs on Kubernetes
• you want DAG or step-sequence workflows with artifact support (S3, GCS, Git, etc.)
• you run ML pipelines or batch data processing at scale on k8s
• you want a CNCF graduated, widely adopted workflow engine with a UI and Python SDK

When to avoid

• you are not running Kubernetes and need a VM or server-based scheduler
• you only need simple cron-style scheduling without DAG dependencies
• you need event-driven automation rather than workflow orchestration (consider Argo Events)

Facets

application · maturity stable

workflow-automation scheduling ci-cd container-orchestration etl machine-learning cloud-computing cloud self-hosted go workflow-engine dag kubernetes-crd batch-processing mlops pipelines cncf cloud-native devops data-engineering containers automation kubernetes docker

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