Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform for building and running workflows across data, infrastructure, and business processes. It uses declarative workflow definitions to coordinate tasks and dependencies, giving teams a central system for scheduled, event-driven, and multi-step automation.

The platform is designed to connect many tools and execution environments while providing operational features such as retries, triggers, logs, monitoring, and workflow state. Its plugin ecosystem allows workflows to combine scripts, databases, cloud services, APIs, data tools, and other systems without forcing every automation into one programming language.

Kestra is useful for data engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, ETL, scheduled jobs, and general process automation. It is especially suited to teams that want workflows to be versionable and reviewable as code while still having a dedicated orchestration interface for observing executions and managing production automation.