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Top 23 Orchestration Open-Source Projects
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dify
Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.
Project mention: 7 Best Lovable Alternatives in 2026 (When You Need More Than a Prototype) | dev.to | 2026-07-127. Dify
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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oh-my-openagent
OmO: Just type "mass ulw" keyword with your prompt. Now you are the master of graph engineering.
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Project mention: Pipeline, Flow, or Chain? Picking the Right Tool to Wire LLM Calls Together | dev.to | 2026-07-11
General orchestrators — Airflow, Prefect, AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps. These treat each LLM call as just another task in a DAG, and give you the heavyweight reliability machinery: durable state, scheduling, checkpointing, audit trails, human approval.
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hyperswitch
Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault and tokenization providers | Uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery | Reduce payment processing costs with cost observability | Reduces payment ops with reconciliation
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agents
Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity
Project mention: Skills Sprawl: When Too Much of a Good Thing Confuses Your AI Agent | dev.to | 2026-08-17Specialised & Community Skills: Niche skills sourced from specific community repositories, including wshobson/agents (documentation-and-adrs, interview-me), coreyhaines31/marketingskills (seo-audit), remotion-dev/skills (remotion-best-practices), and vercel-labs/skills (find-skills).
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Docker Compose recreates containers you didn't touch the first time you run docker compose up after upgrading to 5.5. That's expected, not a bug. Compose 5.5 overhauls image digest reconciliation — the logic that decides whether an existing container matches what your docker-compose.yml currently describes. The release notes say it plainly: "existing containers may be recreated the first time you run compose up after upgrading, as image digests are re-evaluated using the new logic."
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Leaving is not free, either. In a 2024 discussion titled "Need suggestions on migrating away from XState", the poster opened with "XState is just way too sophisticated for our needs" and, ten months later, wrote: "We haven't done the migration because this is a big undertaking and we don't have the resources for it at the moment."
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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Project mention: Kestra 2.0: a new engine, workers anywhere, and still Apache 2.0 | dev.to | 2026-09-08
GitHub: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
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haystack
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
Project mention: haystack VS verified-memory-vault - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/haystack | 2026-08-25 -
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12-factor-agents
What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?
Project mention: 12-Factor Agents – Principles for building reliable LLM applications | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-16 -
Project mention: volnux VS Prefect - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/volnux | 2025-11-19
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Project mention: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-07
You can read all the built-in skills today in https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/tree/main/apps/x/pack...
Each skill lives in its own subfolder with a skill.ts, and they're registered in the catalog at skills/index.ts.
And we're releasing an update shortly that makes them all readable and editable directly in the app, so merging yours with Rowboat's the way you describe becomes straightforward. Looking forward to the call!
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Project mention: I shipped a fix. The PR got closed. And that’s exactly how open source works sometimes 🙂 | dev.to | 2026-02-07
PR for context: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/pull/3014
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I used Dagster, which integrates with dbt nicely (see the point above about how it automagically pulls in documentation). It understands the models and dependencies, and orchestrates everything nicely. It tracks executions and shows you runtimes.
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incubator-dolphinscheduler
Apache DolphinScheduler is the modern data orchestration platform. Agile to create high performance workflow with low-code
Project mention: Inside DolphinScheduler’s May 2026 Release: Better Failover, Stronger Security, and More Reliable Plugins | dev.to | 2026-06-05Related PR: https://github.com/apache/dolphinscheduler/pull/18207
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agent-framework
A framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.
Project mention: Agent memory you can 'git blame' and how OKF4net grew into a zero-dependency .NET toolkit | dev.to | 2026-09-04'OKF4net.Agents' turns a bundle into tools and context for the Microsoft Agent Framework. 'OkfBundleTools' exposes read, browse, graph, search, write, append-log, validate and more as function tools an agent can call directly. Layer 'OkfContextProvider' onto the same instance and the agent automatically gets relevant bundle context injected into each turn — and, when you opt in, its exchanges captured back into the bundle as long-term memory:
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agent-orchestrator
Run and supervise teams of coding agents from planning to merge. Any harness (Claude code, codex, +25 more). Desktop, web, mobile, and cloud agents.
Project mention: Dev log 20: Deleting 180k lines and chasing socket leaks: A week in the OSS trenches | dev.to | 2026-09-06Agent Orchestrator: Merged a fix in PR #4717 to carry the resolved model through metadata merging. This fixed a bug where ao spawn would record an empty model.
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Mage
🧙 The modern replacement for Airflow. Mage is an open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data. https://github.com/mage-ai/mage-ai
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Project mention: Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-09
it's been mentioned on this thread already, we think https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox/ is the closest OSS to it and we have a great DX and improving.
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Project mention: 🚀 Headlamp: A Modern Kubernetes UI You’ll Actually Enjoy Using | dev.to | 2026-03-30
Visit the Headlamp GitHub Releases page.
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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).
Orchestration discussion
Orchestration related posts
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What Is Pix
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Kestra 2.0: a new engine, workers anywhere, and still Apache 2.0
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CISA Adds Seven Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog: AI Infrastructure, Python Web Frameworks, SonicWall, VoIP, and Artifactory
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Docker Compose Recreates Containers After 5.5 Upgrade
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Show HN: Spewer – Delegate Codex/Claude tasks to cheaper models
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haystack VS verified-memory-vault - a user suggested alternative
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Dev log #17 From 16-bit TUIs to p2p Hardening: A 227-Commit Week
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 13 Sep 2026
Index
What are some of the best open-source Orchestration projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | dify | 155,195 |
| 2 | oh-my-openagent | 68,914 |
| 3 | Airflow | 46,839 |
| 4 | hyperswitch | 43,595 |
| 5 | agents | 39,596 |
| 6 | Docker Compose | 38,142 |
| 7 | xstate | 30,100 |
| 8 | kestra | 28,099 |
| 9 | haystack | 26,493 |
| 10 | rancher | 25,899 |
| 11 | 12-factor-agents | 25,799 |
| 12 | Prefect | 23,813 |
| 13 | serve | 21,858 |
| 14 | Taipy | 19,434 |
| 15 | rowboat | 17,527 |
| 16 | trigger.dev | 16,265 |
| 17 | dagster | 16,132 |
| 18 | incubator-dolphinscheduler | 14,463 |
| 19 | agent-framework | 13,485 |
| 20 | agent-orchestrator | 11,343 |
| 21 | Mage | 8,821 |
| 22 | microsandbox | 8,239 |
| 23 | headlamp | 7,256 |
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