Workflow engine

Open-source projects categorized as Workflow engine

Top 23 Workflow engine Open-Source Projects

  • Airflow

    Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

    Project mention: Building in Public: Leveraging Tublian's AI Copilot for My Open Source Contributions | dev.to | 2024-02-12

    Contributing to Apache Airflow's open-source project immersed me in collaborative coding. Experienced maintainers rigorously reviewed my contributions, providing constructive feedback. This ongoing dialogue refined the codebase and honed my understanding of best practices.

  • luigi

    Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in.

    Project mention: Ask HN: What is the correct way to deal with pipelines? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-21

    I agree there are many options in this space. Two others to consider:

    - https://airflow.apache.org/

    - https://github.com/spotify/luigi

    There are also many Kubernetes based options out there. For the specific use case you specified, you might even consider a plain old Makefile and incrond if you expect these all to run on a single host and be triggered by a new file showing up in a directory…

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Prefect

    The easiest way to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale.

    Project mention: Prefect: A workflow orchestration tool for data pipelines | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13
  • argo

    Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

    Project mention: StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

    Like Argo Workflows?

    https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows

  • conductor

    Conductor is an event driven orchestration platform (by conductor-oss)

    Project mention: Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-08
  • temporal

    Temporal service

    Project mention: Rethinking Serverless with Flame | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-06

    I don't know if I agree with the argument regarding durability vs elastic execution. If I can get both (with a nice API/DX) via something like Temporal (https://github.com/temporalio/temporal), what's the drawback here?

  • Kedro

    Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.

    Project mention: Nextflow: Data-Driven Computational Pipelines | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

    Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll definitely take a look, although at this point I am so comfortable with Snakemake, it is a bit hard to imagine what would convince me to move to another tool. But I like the idea of composable pipelines: I am building a tool (too early to share) that would allow to lay Snakemake pipelines on top of each other using semi-automatic data annotations similar to how it is done in kedro (https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro).

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Flowable (V6)

    A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users.

  • kestra

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

    Project mention: A High-Performance, Java-Based Orchestration Platform | /r/java | 2023-10-11

    Kestra's communication is asynchronous and based on a queuing mechanism. It leverages the Micronaut framework and offers two runners: one that uses a database (JDBC) for both the message queue and resource storage, and another that uses Kafka as the message queue and Elasticsearch as the resource storage. The platform is fully extensible and plugin-based, providing a rich set of plugins for various workflow tasks, triggers, and data storage options. For those interested, the GitHub repository is available here: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

  • Workflow Core

    Lightweight workflow engine for .NET Standard

  • devtron

    Tool integration platform for Kubernetes

    Project mention: Devtron - End-to-End Software Delivery for Kubernetes Applications | /r/kubernetes | 2023-10-05
  • zeebe

    Distributed Workflow Engine for Microservices Orchestration

    Project mention: Is there a product that can orchestrate running jobs? | /r/kubernetes | 2023-07-12
  • hatchet

    A distributed, fault-tolerant task queue

    Project mention: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

    Hatchet (https://hatchet.run) | New York City | Full-time

    We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet.

    We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136. We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and we are just wrapping up the YC W24 batch.

    As a founding engineer, you'll be responsible for contributing across the entire codebase. We'll compensate accordingly and with high equity. It's currently just the two founders + a part-time contractor. We're all technical and contribute code.

    Stack: Typescript/React, Go and PostgreSQL.

    To apply, email alexander [at] hatchet [dot] run, and include the following:

    1. Tell us about something impressive you've built.

    2. Ask a question or write a comment about the state of the project. For example: a file that stood out to you in the codebase, a Github issue or discussion that piqued your interest, a general comment on distributed systems/task queues, or why our code is bad and how you could improve it.

  • nextflow

    A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines

    Project mention: Nextflow: Data-Driven Computational Pipelines | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

    > It's been a while since you can rerun/resume Nextflow pipelines

    Yes, you can resume, but you need your whole upstream DAG to be present. Snakemake can rerun a job when only the dependencies of that job are present, which allows to neatly manage the disk usage, or archive an intermediate state of a project and rerun things from there.

    > and yes, you can have dry runs in Nextflow

    You have stubs, which really isn't the same thing.

    > I have no idea what you're referring to with the 'arbitrary limit of 1000 parallel jobs' though

    I was referring to this issue: https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/issues/1871. Except, the discussion doesn't give the issue a full justice. Nextflow spans each job in a separate thread, and when it tries to span 1000+ condor jobs it die with a cryptic error message. The option of -Dnxf.pool.type=sync and -Dnxf.pool.maxThreads=N prevents the ability to resume and attempts to rerun the pipeline.

    > As for deleting temporary files, there are features that allow you to do a few things related to that, and other features being implemented.

    There are some hacks for this - but nothing I would feel safe to integrate into a production tool. They are implementing something - you're right - and it's been the case for several years now, so we'll see.

    Snakemake has all that out of the box.

  • viewflow

    Reusable workflow library for Django

    Project mention: Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

    https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/...

    viewflow supports BPMN: https://github.com/viewflow/viewflow

  • awesome-argo

    A curated list of awesome projects and resources related to Argo (a CNCF graduated project)

  • galaxy

    Data intensive science for everyone.

    Project mention: Need for GUIs for bioinformatic tools? | /r/bioinformatics | 2023-06-17

    Maybe it would help you to look at the galaxy project: GitHub main site

  • uTask

    µTask is an automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml. ✏️📋

  • scipipe

    Robust, flexible and resource-efficient pipelines using Go and the commandline

  • goflow

    A Golang based high performance, scalable and distributed workflow framework (by s8sg)

  • Gush

    Fast and distributed workflow runner using ActiveJob and Redis

  • titanoboa

    Titanoboa makes complex workflows easy. It is a low-code workflow orchestration platform for JVM - distributed, highly scalable and fault tolerant.

  • couler

    Unified Interface for Constructing and Managing Workflows on different workflow engines, such as Argo Workflows, Tekton Pipelines, and Apache Airflow.

    Project mention: (Not) to Write a Pipeline | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-27

    author seems to be describing the kind of patterns you might make with https://argoproj.github.io/argo-workflows/ . or see for example https://github.com/couler-proj/couler , which is an sdk for describing tasks that may be submitted to different workflow engines on the backend.

    it's a little confusing to me that the author seems to object to "pipelines" and then equate them with messaging-queues. for me at least, "pipeline" vs "workflow-engine" vs "scheduler" are all basically synonyms in this context. those things may or may not be implemented with a message-queue for persistence, but the persistence layer itself is usually below the level of abstraction that $current_problem is really concerned with. like the author says, eventually you have to track state/timestamps/logs, but you get that from the beginning if you start with a workflow engine.

    i agree with author that message-queues should not be a knee-jerk response to most problems because the LoE for edge-cases/observability/monitoring is huge. (maybe reach for a queue only if you may actually overwhelm whatever the "scheduler" can handle.) but don't build the scheduler from scratch either.. use argowf, kubeflow, or a more opinionated framework like airflow, mlflow, databricks, aws lamda or step-functions. all/any of these should have config or api that's robust enough to express rate-limit/retry stuff. almost any of these choices has better observability out-of-the-box than you can easily get from a queue. but most importantly.. they provide idioms for handling failure that data-science folks and junior devs can work with. the right way to structure code is just much more clear and things like structuring messages/events, subclassing workers, repeating/retrying tasks, is just harder to mess up.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-01.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Workflow engine projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Airflow 34,397
2 luigi 17,292
3 Prefect 14,512
4 argo 14,259
5 conductor 10,000
6 temporal 9,739
7 Kedro 9,341
8 Flowable (V6) 7,354
9 kestra 6,260
10 Workflow Core 5,049
11 devtron 3,835
12 zeebe 3,013
13 hatchet 2,683
14 nextflow 2,538
15 viewflow 2,537
16 awesome-argo 1,780
17 galaxy 1,310
18 uTask 1,095
19 scipipe 1,052
20 goflow 1,025
21 Gush 1,023
22 titanoboa 905
23 couler 883
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