Kestra is an open-source orchestrator designed to bring Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices to all workflows — from those orchestrating mission-critical applications, IT operations, business processes, and data pipelines, to simple Zapier-style automations.
You can use Kestra to:
- run workflows on-demand, event-driven or based on a regular schedule
- programmatically interact with any system or programming language
- orchestrate microservices, batch jobs, ad-hoc scripts (written in Python, R, Julia, Node.js, and more), SQL queries, data ingestion syncs, dbt or Spark jobs, or any other applications or processes.
This tutorial will guide you through key concepts in Kestra. We'll build upon the "Hello-world" flow from the Getting Started section, and we'll gradually introduce new concepts including namespaces, tasks, parametrization with inputs and scheduling using triggers.
We'll then dive into parallel task execution, error handling, as well as custom scripts and microservices running in isolated containers. Let's get started!