Show HN: After AKHQ (KafkaHQ), I Made Kestra Open-Source Airflow Alternative

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  • kestra

    Infinitely scalable, event-driven, language-agnostic orchestration and scheduling platform to manage millions of workflows declaratively in code.

  • Hey HN, I'm really proud to share with you my new open source project: Kestra https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

    I created a few years ago a successful open source AKHQ project: https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq (renamed from KafkaHQ) which has been adopted by big companies like Best Buy, Pipedrive, BMW, Decathlon and many more. 2300 stars, 120 contributors, 10M docker downloads, much more than I expected.

    Now let's talk about Kestra, an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform for creating, running, scheduling and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

    I started the project 30 months ago and I'm even more proud of this project that required a lot of investment and time to build the future of data pipelines (I hope). The result is now ready to be presented and I hope to get some feedback from you, HN community.

    To have a fully scalable solution, we choose Kafka as our database (of course, I love Kafka if you didn't know) as well as ElasticSearch, Micronaut, ... and can be deployed on Kubernetes, VM or on premise.

    You may think there are many alternatives in this area, but we decided to take a different road by using a descriptive approach (low code) to build your pipelines allowing to edit directly from the web interface and deploy to production with terraform directly. We paid a lot of attention to the scalability and performance part which allows us to have already a big production at a big French retailer: Leroy Merlin

    Since Kestra core is plugin based, many are available from the core team, but you can create one easily.

    More information:

  • akhq

    Kafka GUI for Apache Kafka to manage topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more...

  • Hey HN, I'm really proud to share with you my new open source project: Kestra https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

    I created a few years ago a successful open source AKHQ project: https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq (renamed from KafkaHQ) which has been adopted by big companies like Best Buy, Pipedrive, BMW, Decathlon and many more. 2300 stars, 120 contributors, 10M docker downloads, much more than I expected.

    Now let's talk about Kestra, an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform for creating, running, scheduling and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

    I started the project 30 months ago and I'm even more proud of this project that required a lot of investment and time to build the future of data pipelines (I hope). The result is now ready to be presented and I hope to get some feedback from you, HN community.

    To have a fully scalable solution, we choose Kafka as our database (of course, I love Kafka if you didn't know) as well as ElasticSearch, Micronaut, ... and can be deployed on Kubernetes, VM or on premise.

    You may think there are many alternatives in this area, but we decided to take a different road by using a descriptive approach (low code) to build your pipelines allowing to edit directly from the web interface and deploy to production with terraform directly. We paid a lot of attention to the scalability and performance part which allows us to have already a big production at a big French retailer: Leroy Merlin

    Since Kestra core is plugin based, many are available from the core team, but you can create one easily.

    More information:

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  • conductor

    Discontinued Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.

  • Have you tried Netflix Conductor (https://github.com/Netflix/conductor) - if you are evaluating between Airflow - this could be a great alternative - scales well and gives you option to write your workflows in code as well as config.

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