---
title: "kestra"
type: "tool"
slug: "kestra-io-kestra"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/kestra-io-kestra"
github_url: "https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra"
homepage_url: "https://go.kestra.io/home"
stars: 27269
forks: 2650
primary_language: "Java"
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["developer-tools"]
tags: ["data-engineering", "devops", "automation", "scheduler", "ai-agents"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:23:05.050012+00:00"
---

# kestra

> Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications

Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform designed to manage data, AI, and infrastructure workflows with automation capabilities.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
- Homepage: https://go.kestra.io/home
- Stars: 27,269 · Forks: 2,650 · Open issues: 537 · Watchers: 139
- Primary language: Java
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-07T16:13:02+00:00

## Categories

- [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools.md)

## Tags

data-engineering, devops, automation, scheduler, ai-agents

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## README (excerpt)

```text
<p align="center">
  <a href="https://www.kestra.io">
    <img src="https://kestra.io/banner.png"  alt="Kestra workflow orchestrator" />
  </a>
</p>

<h1 align="center" style="border-bottom: none">
    Open-source orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows
</h1>

<div align="center">
 <a href="https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/tag/kestra-io/kestra.svg?sort=semver&include_prereleases&color=blueviolet" alt="Last Version" /></a>
  <a href="https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/blob/develop/LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/kestra-io/kestra?color=blueviolet" alt="License" /></a>
  <a href="https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/stargazers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/kestra-io/kestra?color=blueviolet&logo=github" alt="Github star" /></a> <br>
<a href="https://kestra.io"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Website-kestra.io-192A4E?color=blueviolet" alt="Kestra infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform"></a>
<a href="https://kestra.io/slack"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Slack-Join%20Community-blueviolet?logo=slack" alt="Slack"></a>
</div>

<br />

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://x.com/kestra_io" style="margin: 0 10px;">
        <img height="25" src="https://kestra.io/twitter.svg" alt="twitter" width="35" height="25" /></a>
  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/kestra/" style="margin: 0 10px;">
        <img height="25" src="https://kestra.io/linkedin.svg" alt="linkedin" width="35" height="25" /></a> 
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@kestra-io" style="margin: 0 10px;">
        <img height="25" src="https://kestra.io/youtube.svg" alt="youtube" width="35" height="25" /></a>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/2714" target="_blank">
    <img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/repositories/2714" alt="kestra-io%2Fkestra | Trendshift" width="250" height="55"/>
  </a>
  <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kestra?embed=true&utm_source=badge-top-post-badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_souce=badge-kestra" target="_blank"><img src="https://api.producthunt.com/widgets/embed-image/v1/top-post-badge.svg?post_id=612077&theme=light&period=daily&t=1740737506162" alt="Kestra - All&#0045;in&#0045;one&#0032;automation&#0032;&#0038;&#0032;orchestration&#0032;platform | Product Hunt" style="width: 250px; height: 54px;" width="250" height="54" /></a>
</p>

<p align="center">
    <a href="https://go.kestra.io/video/product-overview" target="_blank">
        <img src="https://kestra.io/startvideo.png" alt="Get started in 3 minutes with Kestra" width="640px" />
    </a>
</p>
<p align="center" style="color:grey;"><i>Click on the image to learn how to get started with Kestra in 3 minutes.</i></p>


## 🌟 What is Kestra?

Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. It unifies **scheduled** and **event-driven** automation behind a declarative, language-agnostic interface. By bringing **Infrastructure as Code** best practices to your data, process, and microservice pipelines, you can build reliable [workflows](https://kestra.io/docs/quickstart) directly from the UI in just a few lines of YAML.

## 📖 Table of Contents

- [🚀 Quick Start](#-quick-start)
- [🧩 Plugin Ecosystem](#-plugin-ecosystem)
- [📚 Key Concepts](#-key-concepts)
- [🎨 Build Workflows Visually](#-build-workflows-visually)
- [🔧 Extensible and Developer-Friendly](#-extensible-and-developer-friendly)
- [🌐 Join the Community](#-join-the-community)
- [🤝 Contributing](#-contributing)
- [📄 License](#-license)
- [⭐️ Stay Updated](#️-stay-updated)



**Key Features:**
- **Everything as Code and from the UI:** keep **workflows as code** with a **Git Version Control** integration, even when building them from the UI.
- **Event-Driven & Scheduled Workflows:** automate both **scheduled** and **real-time** event-driven workflows via a simple `trigger` defin
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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/kestra-io-kestra`](/api/graphcanon/tools/kestra-io-kestra)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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