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The self-hosted Kestra alternative

Kestra is a workflow orchestration and scheduling platform for building, running, and monitoring automated pipelines (data/ETL and operational jobs). It uses declarative YAML, a plugin-based task system, scheduling, dependency management and execution monitoring.

Alternatives to Kestra

Open-source runbook automation platform to schedule jobs, orchestrate workflows, and provide controlled self-service operations via web UI and API.

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6.3k stars988 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Kestra actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Automation & Workflow Builders (Low-code).

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