Kestra

Kestra is an open-source orchestration and scheduling platform for building data pipelines, DevOps workflows, and business automation at scale. Workflows are defined in YAML (or via the built-in visual editor), and Kestra provides a rich plugin ecosystem with over 500 integrations covering databases, cloud providers, messaging systems, APIs, and scripting languages.

The platform supports both event-driven triggers and cron-based scheduling, with features like parallel task execution, dynamic inputs, error handling, retries, and sub-workflows. A real-time execution dashboard and detailed logs make it easy to monitor and debug complex pipelines. Kestra is designed for high availability and can scale horizontally for enterprise workloads.

Compared to Zapier or Make, Kestra is a developer and data-engineering tool: pipelines are code-first, version-controlled, and built for reliability rather than ease of use by non-technical users. It is self-hostable via Docker or Kubernetes and offers an enterprise cloud tier for teams that need managed infrastructure.