kestra-io/kestra

Health v2 · maintenance only

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27933 stars · 2943 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration and scheduling platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows, written in Java. It unifies scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, pipeline-as-code interface with a UI and mission-critical features like high availability.

Use cases

• orchestrate data pipelines with scheduled and event-driven triggers
• automate ETL workflows as code
• schedule and monitor mission-critical batch jobs
• coordinate AI agent and LLM workflows
• manage infrastructure automation workflows
• replace cron jobs and Airflow with a declarative orchestrator

When to choose

• you need a unified platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows
• you want pipeline-as-code with a low-code UI
• you need high availability for mission-critical orchestration
• you orchestrate mixed data, AI, and infrastructure tasks

When to avoid

• you only need simple cron-style scheduling without a control plane
• you want a lightweight single-binary tool with no JVM dependency
• your workflows are purely code-based CI/CD better served by a pipeline runner

Facets

service · maturity stable

workflow-automation scheduling etl infrastructure-as-code deployment agent-framework large-language-models self-hosted jvm self-hosted cloud orchestration pipeline-as-code low-code event-driven data-pipelines scheduler control-plane high-availability data-engineering devops automation docker kubernetes web-server

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