Kestra 1.0 is Coming: the next big Thing in Orchestration

For too long, orchestration has meant complexity and patchwork: fragile schedulers, vendor lock-in, homegrown scripts, endless configs, stacked monitoring layers. Some even ended up coding their workflows directly in Python as if orchestration itself needed to be coded. The result: slow to build, painful to maintain, impossible to scale.

We introduced the first declarative orchestration, giving engineers a new path: simple, transparent, powerful. Instead of writing imperative code to describe how to run a workflow, you declare the target state, the tasks, their dependencies, conditions, and triggers. Kestra takes care of the rest: execution, scaling, retries, observability, and governance.

As the world turns to AI, orchestration faces a new inflection point. The stakes are higher, as the rapid pace of AI leads to workflows that are more dynamic and often unpredictable. But the answer hasn’t changed: declarative orchestration is the foundation.

Already trusted worldwide

Kestra already powers billions of workflows for some of the world’s largest organizations, from Apple to Toyota, Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom, BHP, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

• Fila runs 2.5M workflows every month with just 25 engineers.
• Acxiom orchestrates for more than 50 enterprise clients and hundreds of teams.
• Leroy Merlin scaled from dozens to thousands of workflows in just weeks, growing data volume 9x.

With more than 20,000 GitHub stars, Kestra has become the fastest-growing open-source orchestrator of its generation.

And with

plugins available out of the box, Kestra connects across the enterprise stack from data and AI to IT and business automation, allowing engineers to orchestrate everything, everywhere.

We are backed by the founders of Datadog, Hugging Face, dbt Labs, Talend, Airbyte, Algolia… and integrated with the platforms that already shape enterprise ecosystems: Snowflake, Databricks, HashiCorp, and many more.

Across industries, leaders choose Kestra because it delivers what others can’t: stability, governance, and speed.

Why is Declarative the Only Way

AI is transforming how developers and organizations build. But without orchestration, AI would remain limited to chatbots.

Declarative orchestration means you define what should happen, and it always runs reliably and at scale with no lock-in or guesswork. This approach will be the backbone of how developers worldwide harness AI to build better, faster, and safer workflows.

Legacy orchestration cannot keep up. Declarative is the only foundation strong enough for the AI era.

September 9: a new chapter

On September 9, 2025, we will officially unveil Kestra 1.0, our most stable, mature, and enterprise-ready release yet… but also one that introduces breakthrough innovations orchestration has never seen before.

We have built the foundation for the next decade of orchestration.

• Stable: tested across billions of executions.
• Mature: proven by the world’s largest enterprises.
• Declarative: simple to define, predictable to run, easy to scale.
• AI-powered: built to orchestrate workflows that are increasingly dynamic and intelligent.
• Extensible: powered by
  plugins to integrate with everything that matters.

The countdown is on. In 7 days, we’ll reveal what will permanently redefine orchestration.