DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the developer cloud, offering droplets, managed databases, and Kubernetes. With Kestra's dedicated plugin, teams orchestrate the whole account with event-driven flows.
MotherDuck
MotherDuck is a serverless data platform built on DuckDB. Kestra runs the pipelines that load, transform and query it, with schedules, retries and secrets built in.
About
Kestra's DuckDB plugin connects to MotherDuck through an md: connection string and a MotherDuck token, so every DuckDB task and blueprint can run against a shared cloud database. Anna Geller covered the ETL patterns in a guest post on the MotherDuck blog, and DuckDB vs. MotherDuck explains when to move a local workload to the cloud.
MotherDuck + Kestra: cloud DuckDB, orchestrated
Same SQL, laptop to cloud
Prototype a flow on local in-memory DuckDB, then point the same Query task at MotherDuck by changing the JDBC URL. No SQL rewrite.
Tokens stay in secrets
The MotherDuck service token is stored as a Kestra secret and referenced in the JDBC URL, so it never appears in flow code.
Results that outlive the run
In-memory DuckDB disappears when the execution ends. Writing to a MotherDuck database keeps tables between runs and shares them with the team.
Scheduled and retried loads
Cron schedules, retries and backfills run MotherDuck queries on time, and failed runs replay from the task that broke.
