Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform that enables the creation and management of both scheduled and event-driven workflows using a declarative YAML interface, allowing business stakeholders to participate in workflow design. It integrates with various data sources and tools, automating complex processes while ensuring reliable execution and scalability across diverse environments.
Funding
$8.4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Organizations struggle to automate complex, business-critical workflows due to the limitations of traditional orchestration platforms. These platforms often lack the flexibility to integrate diverse data sources, require extensive coding, and are difficult for business stakeholders to manage and govern. This complexity hinders agility and slows down data processing.
Solution
Kestra is a unified, open-source orchestration platform that simplifies the automation of business-critical workflows. It provides a declarative YAML interface, enabling both developers and business stakeholders to define and manage workflows as code. Kestra integrates with a wide array of data sources and tools, allowing users to connect their workflows to their existing data stack. The platform offers features such as a built-in code editor, a comprehensive dashboard, and a rich plugin ecosystem, facilitating fast development cycles and simple deployments.
Target Audience
Kestra targets data engineers, data scientists, and business users who need to automate complex data workflows, integrate with diverse data sources, and ensure reliable execution and scalability across various environments.
Features
- Declarative workflow creation using YAML, allowing for version control and collaboration
- Scalable, multi-tenant architecture designed to handle growing workloads
- Built-in code editor with autocompletion, syntax validation, and Git integration
- All-inclusive dashboard for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing workflows
- Support for scheduled, event-driven, and real-time workflow execution
- Integration with over 500 plugins for popular databases, file formats, APIs, and cloud services
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for secure collaboration
- Ability to define custom Docker images per task, allowing for flexible execution environments