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Open Source Orchestration & Scheduling Tools

Open source orchestration & scheduling tools

projects 64 combined stars ★ 564K refresh nightly
Orchestration & Scheduling is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 11 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Orchestration & Scheduling tools

compose ★ 38K

Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

rank001 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
conductor ★ 32K

Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents

rank002 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
xxl-job ★ 31K

A distributed task scheduling framework.(分布式任务调度平台XXL-JOB)

rank003 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
gitleaks ★ 29K

Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

rank004 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Kestra ★ 28K

Declarative workflow orchestration for data, AI, and infra

rank005 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
haystack ★ 27K

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with exp

rank006 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
rancher ★ 26K

Complete container management platform

rank007 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Prefect ★ 24K

Python-native workflow orchestration for data and ML teams

rank008 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Archon ★ 23K

The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

rank009 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Temporal ★ 23K

Build resilient applications with durable execution workflows

rank010 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
rowboat ★ 18K

Open-source AI coworker, with memory

rank011 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Trigger ★ 16K

Run long-running AI tasks without timeouts or servers

rank012 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
dolphinscheduler ★ 14K

Apache DolphinScheduler is the modern data orchestration platform. Agile to create high performance workflow with low-code

rank013 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
agent-framework ★ 14K

A framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.

rank014 licenseMIT written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
agent-orchestrator ★ 12K

Run and supervise teams of coding agents from planning to merge. Any harness (Claude code, codex, +25 more). Desktop, web, mobile, and cloud agents.

rank015 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
earthly ★ 12K

Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

rank016 licenseMPL-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
bisheng ★ 12K

BISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent,

rank017 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
dtm ★ 11K

A distributed transaction framework, supports workflow, saga, tcc, xa, 2-phase message, outbox patterns, supports many languages.

rank018 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Healthchecks ★ 10K

Get alerted when cron jobs and scheduled tasks miss their run

rank019 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
flowable-engine ★ 9.5K

A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users.

rank020 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
astron-agent ★ 9.0K

Enterprise-grade, commercial-friendly agentic workflow platform for building next-generation SuperAgents.

rank021 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeOrchestration & Scheduling
oh-my-opencode-slim ★ 8.9K

Lean, fine tuned Opencode multi agent suite · Mix any models · Auto delegate tasks

rank022 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Mage ★ 8.8K

Magical data pipeline tool for seamless transformations

rank023 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
origin ★ 8.7K

Conformance test suite for OpenShift

rank024 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Hatchet ★ 8.0K

Distributed task queue for background jobs and workflows

rank025 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
munder-difflin ★ 7.5K

A local multi-agent harness that works with your existing Claude Code, Codex subscriptions, allows you to run an office of agents

rank026 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
osmedeus ★ 6.6K

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

rank027 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
workflow-core ★ 5.9K

Lightweight workflow engine for .NET Standard

rank028 licenseMIT written inC# typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Inngest ★ 5.8K

Effortless event-driven workflows for modern applications

rank029 licenseNOASSERTION written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
uncloud ★ 5.5K

A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨

rank030 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
werf ★ 4.7K

A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.

rank031 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
ergo ★ 4.7K

An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies.

rank032 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
kubero ★ 4.4K

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

rank033 licenseGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
moon ★ 4.1K

A build system and monorepo management tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust.

rank034 licenseMIT written inRust typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Dagu ★ 4.0K

YAML-defined workflow orchestration, no database required

rank035 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
nextflow ★ 3.5K

A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines

rank036 licenseApache-2.0 written inGroovy typeOrchestration & Scheduling
bree ★ 3.3K

Bree is a Node.js and JavaScript job task scheduler with worker threads, cron, Date, and human syntax. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @spamscanner, @cabinjs.

rank037 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
vps-audit ★ 3.1K

lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.

rank038 licenseMIT written inShell typeOrchestration & Scheduling
viewflow ★ 2.9K

Reusable workflow library for Django

rank039 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
FluentScheduler ★ 2.8K

Automated job scheduler with fluent interface for the .NET platform.

rank040 licenseUnlicense written inC# typeOrchestration & Scheduling
erda ★ 2.8K

An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.

rank041 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
database-lab-engine ★ 2.7K

DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while

rank042 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
workflow ★ 2.4K

Workflow SDK: Build durable, reliable, and observable apps and AI Agents in TypeScript

rank043 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
rtic ★ 2.4K

Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency (RTIC) framework for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers

rank044 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeOrchestration & Scheduling
kala ★ 2.2K

Modern Job Scheduler

rank045 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
loonflow ★ 2.1K

A Intelligent and Visual Process Automation System, ticket, workflow, MCP

rank046 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
go-quartz ★ 2.0K

Minimalist and zero-dependency scheduling library for Go

rank047 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
django-rq ★ 1.9K

A simple app that provides django integration for RQ (Redis Queue)

rank048 licenseMIT written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
devops-basics ★ 1.9K

🚀 Practical and document place for DevOps toolchain

rank049 licenseApache-2.0 written inShell typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Dyrector ★ 1.8K

Simplify container deployment across environments

rank050 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
resque-scheduler ★ 1.7K

A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque

rank051 licenseMIT written inRuby typeOrchestration & Scheduling
agola ★ 1.6K

Agola: CI/CD Redefined

rank052 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
rulego ★ 1.6K

⛓️RuleGo is a lightweight, high-performance, embedded, next-generation component orchestration rule engine framework for Go.

rank053 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
dbos-transact-py ★ 1.6K

Database-Backed Durable Python Workflows

rank054 licenseMIT written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Youtarr ★ 1.6K

Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin

rank055 licenseISC written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
openchoreo ★ 1.6K

OpenChoreo is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes

rank056 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Tracely-ai ★ 1.4K

Trace-native CI/CD for AI agents — production failures become regression tests that block the PR. Auto-detect, cluster, freeze into hermetic cases, replay in CI

rank057 licenseMIT written inPython typeOrchestration & Scheduling
dbos-transact-ts ★ 1.4K

Database-Backed Durable TypeScript Workflows

rank058 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
pipecd ★ 1.4K

The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations}

rank059 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
openworkflow ★ 1.3K

Open-source TypeScript framework for building durable, resumable workflows. Supports Node.js and Bun.

rank060 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
YaraHunter ★ 1.3K

🔍🔍 Malware scanner for cloud-native, as part of CI/CD and at Runtime 🔍🔍

rank061 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
quirrel ★ 927

The Task Queueing Solution for Serverless.

rank062 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeOrchestration & Scheduling
Bacalhau ★ 871

Revolutionizing data processing with Compute Over Data

rank063 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling
tork ★ 817

Tork is a lightweight, distributed workflow engine that runs tasks as simple scripts within Docker containers.

rank064 licenseMIT written inGo typeOrchestration & Scheduling

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Orchestration & Scheduling tools are there?

This registry tracks 64 open source Orchestration & Scheduling projects, with 564,130 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Orchestration & Scheduling project?

compose leads this category with 38,175 GitHub stars, followed by conductor.

Are these Orchestration & Scheduling tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.