A curated list of awesome open source workflow engines
- Airflow
- Python-based platform for running directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks
- Argo
- Open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes
- Azkaban
- Batch workflow job scheduler created at LinkedIn to run Hadoop jobs.
- Brigade
- Brigade is a tool for running scriptable, automated tasks in the cloud — as part of your Kubernetes cluster.
- Cadence
- An orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic developed by Uber Engineering.
- CloudSlang
- Workflow engine to automate your DevOps use cases.
- Conductor
- Netflix's Conductor is an orchestration engine that runs in the cloud.
- Copper
- A high performance Java workflow engine.
- Cromwell
- Workflow engine written in Scala and designed for simplicity and scalability. Executes workflows written in WDL or CWL.
- Cylc
- Workflow engine that orchestrates complex distributed workflows with cyclic or acyclic graphs. It was originally designed to automate weather forecasting systems at NIWA.
- DigDag
- Digdag is a simple tool that helps you to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines of tasks.
- FireWorks
- 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.
- Imixs-Workflow
- A powerful human-centric Workflow Engine based on the BPMN 2.0 standard.
- Kiba
- Data processing & ETL framework for Ruby
- Mistral
- Workflow service, in OpenStack foundation.
- Nextflow
- Develop container-backed, reproducible workflows portable across computational platforms including local, HPC schedulers, AWS Batch, Google Genomics Pipelines, and Kubernetes.
- Oozie
- Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop.
- Pegasus
- Automate, recover, and debug scientific computations.
- Piper
- A distributed Java workflow engine designed to be dead simple.
- Prefect
- Prefect is a new workflow management system, designed for modern infrastructure and powered by the open-source Prefect Core workflow engine
- RunDeck
- Job Scheduler and Runbook Automation.
- Titanoboa
- Titanoboa is a platform for creating complex workflows on JVM.
- uTask
- Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml.
- Wexflow
- A high-performance, extensible, modular and cross-platform workflow engine.
- Workflow Core
- Workflow Core is a light weight workflow engine targeting .NET Standard.
- Workflow Engine - A lightweight .NET and Java workflow engine.
- Zeebe
- A workflow engine for microservices orchestration that's capable of executing BPMN models, developed by the team at Camunda
- Activiti
- Activiti is a leading lightweight, java-centric open-source BPMN engine supporting real-world process automation needs.
- Activiti Cloud - is now the new generation of business automation platform offering a set of cloud native building blocks designed to run on distributed infrastructures.
- 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.
- jBPM
- 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.
- Bip.io - Web Automation For People And Robots.
- Zenaton - Workflow engine for data processes and background jobs available in PHP, Node.js, Python and Ruby.
- Camunda
- Both a java library and optionally a full fledged product on top of it.
- Captain
- Distributed, light-weight java workflow engine for a microservice architecture.
- Luigi
- Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
- Viewflow
- Reusable workflow library that helps organize people collaboration business logic in django applications.
- Workflow Core
