Kestra
Kestra is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Automation & Workflows category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Java. It is a self-hosted alternative to Zapier and ships a Docker image. It has 30,000 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 30,000
- Forks
- 3,477
- Open issues
- 540
- Commits, last 12 months
- 5,153
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.0.7Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Aug 24, 2019
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 5,153 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors183 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 5,153 |
| Latest release | v2.0.7 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 506 |
| Open issues | 540 |
| Open pull requests | 341 |
| Good first issues | 183 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 24, 2019 |
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About Kestra
Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/kestra-io/kestra.
Topics
- orchestration
- data-orchestration
- high-availability
- infrastructure-as-code
- automation
- devops
- java
- low-code
- pipeline
- pipeline-as-code
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Is Kestra free and open source?
Yes. Kestra is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Kestra with Docker?
Yes. Kestra provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Kestra?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Kestra include n8n, Huginn and Apache Airflow. Kestra itself is a self-hosted alternative to Zapier.
Is Kestra actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Kestra was on Oct 26, 2026 with 5,153 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.0.7, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 540 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.