Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform that makes both scheduled and event-driven workflows easy. By bringing Infrastructure as Code best practices to data, process, and microservice orchestration, you can build reliable workflows directly from the UI in just a few lines of YAML.
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
triggerdefinition. - Declarative YAML Interface: define workflows using a simple configuration in the built-in code editor.
- Rich Plugin Ecosystem: hundreds of plugins built in to extract data from any database, cloud storage, or API, and run scripts in any language.
- Intuitive UI & Code Editor: build and visualize workflows directly from the UI with syntax highlighting, auto-completion and real-time syntax validation.
- Scalable: designed to handle millions of workflows, with high availability and fault tolerance.
- Version Control Friendly: write your workflows from the built-in code Editor and push them to your preferred Git branch directly from Kestra, enabling best practices with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
- Structure & Resilience: tame chaos and bring resilience to your workflows with namespaces, labels, subflows, retries, timeout, error handling, inputs, outputs that generate artifacts in the UI, variables, conditional branching, advanced scheduling, event triggers, backfills, dynamic tasks, sequential and parallel tasks, and skip tasks or triggers when needed by setting the flag
disabledtotrue.
QNAP integration :
$HOME is set by default in /opt/Kestra85
kestra command line added to NAS $PATH
run on port 6688 by default (set in /opt/Kestra85/kestra.sh)
Apache85 is required as a dependency.
Last update: 22 April 2026
