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What is Kestra?

Kestra is an open-source, infinitely-scalable orchestration platform that enables all engineers to manage business-critical workflows declaratively in code.

Thanks to 0+ plugins and an embedded code editor with Git and Terraform integrations, Kestra makes scheduled and event-driven workflows easy.

Quickstart →Why Kestra?Why Enterprise Edition?

What’s possible with Kestra

Data Pipelines

Schedule, backfill, and scale data pipelines declaratively with Kestra. Orchestrate ETL, ELT, and analytics workflows from ingestion to delivery.

dbt Workflows

Version-control, test, and deploy dbt models with Kestra and GitOps. Run dbt on demand or on a schedule with on-demand compute for reliable transformations.

Microservices

Run microservice tasks in response to events, recover from failures, and scale as needed

Infrastructure

Provision resources, manage builds, and scale infrastructure workflows with Kestra. Automate cloud provisioning, CI/CD, and Terraform from one platform.

Approval Processes

Integrate Human-in-the-Loop approvals into critical steps of automated workflows

Python Workflows

Automate, schedule, and scale Python workflows declaratively with Kestra. Run scripts in Docker containers with full dependency management and observability.