awesome-workflow-engines

Activepieces

Open source no-code business automation, alternative to Zapier

AiiDA

Open source workflow manager for computational science with strong focus on performance, provenance, and extensibility

Airflow

Python-based platform for running directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks

Argo Workflows

Open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes

Arvados

Open Source data and workflow management platform with emphasis on reproducibily, scale, and secure data sharing, deployable on cloud and HPC

Batch workflow job scheduler created at LinkedIn to run Hadoop jobs

Brigade is a tool for running scriptable, automated tasks in the cloud — as part of your Kubernetes cluster

Open-source, low-code, extendable API integration & workflow automation platform

A Node.js full-stack framework with workflow engine, based on koa + egg + vue + framework7

Cadence

An orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic developed by Uber Engineering

BPMN-based workflow engine that can be embedded as java library (e.g. Spring Boot) or used standalone, including a graphical modeler and operations tooling

Enterprise-grade continuous delivery & DevOps automation open source platform developped by OVHcloud

CGraph

A simple-used and cross-platform DAG framework based on C++17 without any 3rd-party

Workflow engine to automate your DevOps use cases

Conductor

Conductor is a microservices orchestration platform that enables developers to build scalable, durable application flows. Conductor workflows are language and framework-agnostic. The Conductor is maintained by Orkes and a team of open-source contributors

Copper

A high performance Java workflow engine

Couler

Unified interface for constructing and managing workflows on different workflow engines, such as Argo Workflows, Tekton Pipelines, and Apache Airflow

Workflow orchestration platform for quantum and high performance computing

Cromwell

Workflow engine written in Scala and designed for simplicity and scalability. Executes workflows written in or

Workflow engine that orchestrates complex distributed workflows with cyclic or acyclic graphs. It was originally designed to automate weather forecasting systems at NIWA

Dagu

A No-code workflow executor. It executes workflows from declarative YAML definitions

Data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL

Author and execute durable & long-running Workflow-as-code at scale in Python, Javascript, .NET, Java & Go. Based on the Open-source Durable Task Framework

The open source .NET job orchestrator

Digdag is a simple tool that helps you to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines of tasks

DolphinScheduler

Apache DolphinScheduler is a distributed and extensible workflow scheduler platform with powerful DAG visual interfaces, dedicated to solving complex job dependencies in the data pipeline and providing various types of jobs available out of box

elsa-workflows

A .NET Standard 2.0 Workflows Library

easy-rules

The simple, stupid rules engine for Java

FireWorks stores, executes, and manages calculation workflows

Fission Workflows

A high-perfomant workflow engine for serverless functions on Kubernetes

Flor

A workflow engine written in Ruby

Flyte

A container-native, type-safe workflow and pipelines platform optimized for large scale processing and machine learning written in Golang. Workflows can be written in any language, with out of the box support for Python

ForML

A development framework and MLOps platform for the lifecycle management of data science projects

Galaxy Project

Galaxy is a scientific tool and workflow system that facilitates reproducibility and transparency by providing a graphical user interface (GUI), a multitude of computational dataset tools, a rich API, and a robust scientific community

Goflow

A simple but powerful DAG scheduler and dashboard, written in Go

Huginn

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

A powerful human-centric Workflow Engine based on the BPMN 2.0 standard

An event-driven workflow engine that combines event streams, queues, and durable execution into a single reliability layer

iWF

iWF is a WorkflowAsCode API orchestration platform offering an orchestration coding framework and service for building resilient, fault-tolerant, scalable long-running processes

Open source data orchestration and scheduling platform with declarative syntax

Data processing & ETL framework for Ruby

Kubeflow pipelines

Kubeflow pipelines are reusable end-to-end ML workflows built using the Kubeflow Pipelines SDK

Laravel Workflow is a durable workflow engine that allows users to track job status, orchestrate microservices and write long running persistent distributed workflows in PHP powered by Laravel Queues

Petri Flow

Petri Net workflow engine for Ruby

An elegant, powerful language and framework for building high-performance computational pipelines

Metaflow is a human-friendly Python/R library that helps scientists and engineers build and manage real-life data science projects

.Net Messaging system with Saga Workflow Support

Workflow service, in OpenStack foundation

Free and open node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services

Develop container-backed, reproducible workflows portable across computational platforms including local, HPC schedulers, AWS Batch, Google Genomics Pipelines, and Kubernetes

Node-RED is a NodeJS based workflow tool featuring a browser based editor for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways

Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop

Pallets

Simple and reliable workflow engine, written in Ruby

Python framework for workflow orchestration and parallelization based on a dynamic graph of tasks and their data dependencies

Automate, recover, and debug scientific computations

Piper

A distributed Java workflow engine designed to be dead simple

Technology platform, allows Product & Project teams easily build micro services using drag & drop UI and operate it, within out of the box cloud and CI/CD tools with deep tracing & monitoring

Interactive platform with drag and drop interface for building and deploying portable and scalable end-to-end data driven workflows

Popper

Lightweight, YAML based container-native workflow engine supporting Docker, Singularity, Vagrant VMs with Docker daemon in VM, and local host

Prefect

Prefect is a new workflow management system, designed for modern infrastructure and powered by the open-source Prefect Core workflow engine

A low-latency durable execution engine for workflows, event-driven handlers, transactional state machines, and stateful orchestration. Fully self-contained in a single binary. Supports programs in TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, Go, Python, and Rust

Postgres-backed workflow engine and web dashboard for the River background queue, written in Go

Job Scheduler and Runbook Automation

Workflow management system to create reproducible and scalable data analyses; python-based inspired by GNU

Robust Automation Engine providing Sensors, Triggers, Rules, Workflows, and Actions. StackStorm is how you "glue" your applications together

Temporal is a microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrificing productivity or reliability. Temporal is a mature technology, a fork of Uber's Cadence. Temporal is being developed by Temporal Technologies, a startup by the creators of Cadence

Titanoboa is a platform for creating complex workflows on JVM

Tork

Tork is a very lightweight workflow engine written in Golang

uTask

Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml

.NET Workflow Engine and Automation Platform

Turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool

A lightweight .NET and Java workflow engine

(Yet Another Workflow Language), Java-based, handles complex data transformations, and full integration with organizational resources and external Web Services

A horizontally scalable, cloud-native workflow engine that executes BPMN models and is best operated on Kubernetes; polyglot clients connect via gRPC or available language clients

Activiti is a leading lightweight, java-centric open-source BPMN engine supporting real-world process automation needs

is now the new generation of business automation platform offering a set of cloud native building blocks designed to run on distributed infrastructures

Bonita

BPMN engine that comes with an optional development environment, a designer, an optional user interface and administrative tools

Flowable

The Flowable project provides a core set of open source business process engines that are compact and highly efficient. They provide a workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users

The core of jBPM is a light-weight, extensible workflow engine written in pure Java that allows you to execute business processes using the latest BPMN 2.0 specification

Clear workflows for modern applications

Built on a containerized runtime, deploy and run anywhere to increase scale and portability while automating business-critical workflows

Power customer-centric interactions between consumers and brands in real-time

A workflow service executing BPMN, providing various language clients, based on the open source project

Hyperautomation engine

Simple native workflow builder for your end-users

Orkes provides Netflix Conductor as a cloud services across all the major cloud providers with enterprise features such as security, integrations and Visual workflow code editor

Combine Google Cloud services and APIs to build reliable applications, process automation, and data and machine learning pipelines

A scalable, event-driven durable execution platform

Serverless IDE that allows you to visually build complex workflows (HTTP APIs, map/reduce, etc) on top of AWS Lambda. Supports writing in Python, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, and other languages

Workflow engine for data processes and background jobs available in PHP, Node.js, Python and Ruby

a toolkit to build services and functions based on workflows (primarily BPMN2). Introduces and implements concepts: workflow as a service, workflow as a function and workflow as a function flow

C++ Workflow

C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine

BPMN-based workflow engine that can be embedded as java library (e.g. Spring Boot) or used standalone, including a graphical modeler and operations tooling

Captain

Distributed, light-weight java workflow engine for a microservice architecture

CoreWF

WF runtime ported to work on .NET Core

Dagger

Dagger is a distributed, horizontally scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine in python based on for running millions of long running tasks with direct integration with Kafka

Django River

Django workflow library that supports on the fly changes for states, transitions, and authorizations

DBOS Transact

DBOS typescript library for writing durable and transactional workflows

Durable Task Framework

Durable Task Framework (DTFx) is a library that allows users to write long running persistent workflows in C#

Cloud-native business automation technology. Embeddable to produce JVM or GraalVM artifacts or interacted through Kafka & REST APIs

Luigi

Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs

nFlow

Embeddable JVM-based workflow engine with high availability, fault tolerance, and support for multiple databases. Additional libraries are provided for visualization and REST API

Oban

Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL or SQLite3

SciPipe

A Go library for writing pipelines of Bash commands or Go-code using the dataflow / flow-based programming paradigm

SpiffWorkflow - a BPMN 2.0 workflow engine implemented in pure Python

Symfony Workflow component - The Workflow component provides tools for managing a workflow or finite state machine in PHP

Unify Flowret

A lightweight Java based workflow / orchestration engine

Reusable workflow library that helps organize people collaboration business logic in django applications

Workflow Core

Lightweight workflow engine for .NET Standard

WorkflowEngine.NET

WorkflowEngine.NET - component that adds workflow in your application. It can be fully integrated into your application, or be in the form of a specific service (such as a web service)