IN THE FIELD GUIDE

kestra

kestra.io

Automate infrastructure workflows with governance replacing scripts, standardizing Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD across hybrid environments. Declarative workflows defined in YAML with branching, loops, parallelism, and failure handling. Runs tasks in any language including Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, or containers without refactoring.

THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH

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A good fit for

Organizations needing scalable, cross-team orchestration for infrastructure, data, and AI workflows with governance and observability.
Teams requiring a platform that supports any programming language and integrates with a wide range of cloud, data, and infrastructure tools.

Know the limitations

Not confirmed yet.

What you can do

Automate infrastructure workflows with governance replacing scripts, standardizing Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD across hybrid environments.
Ship data pipelines faster and keep them reliable by orchestrating ingestion, transformations, dbt, Airbyte, Spark, and quality checks in one engine.
Operationalize AI workflows including agents, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, evaluation, publishing, and retraining with governance and observability.

Features

Declarative workflows defined in YAML with branching, loops, parallelism, and failure handling.
Runs tasks in any language including Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, or containers without refactoring.
Over 2000 plugins for integration with cloud, data, infrastructure, CI/CD, ITSM, messaging, and more.
Built-in governance features including retries, timeouts, SLAs, RBAC, audit logs, and SOC 2 compliance.
API-first design enabling workflow management, execution triggering, and integration with developer platforms.

Integrations

Integrates with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox, Docker, Argo CD.

Platforms & data export

Workflows and configurations can be versioned and managed as code with Git integration supporting pull and push synchronization.

THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM

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Plan costs based on your requirements
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A practical workflow

Define workflows declaratively in YAML specifying tasks, dependencies, conditions, triggers, and runtime parameters.
Develop and edit scripts and workflows using the embedded code editor with Git synchronization for version control.
Monitor workflow executions with detailed logs, execution timelines, outputs, and metrics visualization to debug and optimize.

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What changed

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summary
Before: "Declarative workflows defined in YAML with branching, loops, parallelism, and failure handling. Runs tasks in any language including Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, or containers without refactoring."
After: "Automate infrastructure workflows with governance replacing scripts, standardizing Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD across hybrid environments. Declarative workflows defined in YAML with branching, loops, parallelism, and failure handling. Runs tasks in any language including Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, or containers without refactoring."
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