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Make GitOps, DNS, Inventory, and Compute Behave Like One System. | Kestra Orchestrate Argo CD, Cloudflare, MAAS, KVM, NetBox, and Nutanix with consistent guardrails and a single audit trail.

Infrastructure automation doesn’t break because of tools.

It breaks between them.

Kestra orchestrates infra workflows across:

Argo CD · Cloudflare · MAAS · KVM · NetBox · Nutanix

GitOps → DNS → inventory → compute
in one platform

kestra.io/blogs/infra-...

COBOL isn’t the problem, Claude is not the answer, un-orchestrated systems are the problem | Kestra COBOL is back in the headlines. Not because the language suddenly became cool again, but because it’s a reminder of something the industry keeps forgetting: the world still runs on “old” systems.

blog post here: kestra.io/blogs/claude...

Does Claude Actually Know COBOL? YouTube video by Kestra

COBOL is trending again.
Takes are predictable: “rewrite it” … “AI will solve it.”
Hot take: COBOL isn’t the problem. Claude isn’t the answer. Un-orchestrated systems are.

AI can help. Orchestration makes it safe.

We ran COBOL + Claude in Kestra 👇
🎥 youtu.be/_SQWQoaCkLM

Assets for Infra Automation: From Fire-and-Forget Automation to Governed Infrastructure | Kestra Stop fire-and-forget automation. Use Kestra Assets to manage VMs, IPs, certs, and snapshots as a live, governed infrastructure catalog

Fire-and-forget automation is fine… until you’re on call.

This post shows how Kestra Assets turns infra workflows into a live catalog with lineage: VMs, IPs, certs, users, licenses, snapshots, plus history + dependencies from execution.

👉 kestra.io/blogs/assets...

Tips and tricks for your Kestra flows Build your best Kestra workflow by following practical tips.

Tips and tricks for your @kestra.io flows! dev.to/missamarakay...

Hello, Assets: Unifies Orchestration, Catalogs, and Lineage Kestra Assets bring data and infrastructure governance into your workflows. Track tables, files, and cloud resources as first-class assets with built-in lineage, audit logs, dependency graphs, and tea...

The hardest part of operating data & infrastructure isn’t running workflows, it’s knowing what they touch, what they produce, and what breaks when something changes.

That’s why we built Kestra Assets: a governed, language-agnostic catalog with automatic lineage.

kestra.io/blogs/hello-...

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“Sleep is not a synchronization primitive.” 😅

We’re featured on @foojay.io 🎉 sharing how we deal with flaky tests at Kestra:

6,000+ tests
async workflows
distributed queues
CI you can actually trust

You won’t kill all flakes.
Separate signal from noise. Ship anyway.

foojay.io/today/flaky-...

Kestra 1.2 introduces Assets, Templated Custom Blueprints, Namespace Files Revision History, Concurrent Executions, and New Plugins Kestra 1.2 delivers Asset management, Templated Custom Blueprints, Namespace File versioning, enhanced concurrent execution capabilities, improved UI/UX, new Secret Managers, and new Plugins.

kestra.io/blogs/releas...

If you missed it, Kestra 1.2 brings major improvements across workflow orchestration:
Assets for managing external resources, templated blueprints for reusability, stronger execution controls, and a redesigned execution overview.

Dive in: youtu.be/k_iOLFYyiuM

👉 go.kestra.io/release-1-2-...

🚀 Kestra 1.2 is live!
📦 Assets (EE)
🧩 Templated Blueprints (EE)
📂 Namespace file versioning
🔁 Concurrent triggers
✅ Checks
🎨 UI redesign
☁️ AWS & Azure Marketplace
🧩 Many new plugins

Release post in comments👇

My First Flow with Kestra.io My thoughts and experience building a small PoC with Kestra.io.

Digging into more of the implementation details with @kestra.io! Follow along on my learning journey as I build my first flow. dev.to/missamarakay...

ETL vs ELT: What's The Difference? YouTube video by Kestra

ELT or ETL?

ETL transforms before loading, so what lands is already clean and compliant. ELT loads raw first, then transforms in the warehouse, which is faster and more flexible at cloud scale.

Kestra orchestrates either way: youtu.be/VxOmetLBTxE

The Return of On-Premises Tooling in the SaaS & Platform Era - Platform Engineering Enterprises are returning to on-premises tooling for greater control, sovereignty, and performance in the cloud era.

SaaS is convenient, but control is non-negotiable. 🛡️

We built Kestra to run anywhere, Cloud, On-Prem, or Air-gapped, because we believe you should own your Orchestrator, not just rent it.

The future of tooling is about sovereignty and choice.

platformengineering.com/features/ret...

Stop Managing Email: Let AI Agents Make Decisions For You YouTube video by Kestra

With our Mail Trigger, you can automate workflows the moment an email arrives, react to alerts, batch summaries, turn customer emails into tickets, or let AI highlight what matters.

quick demo: youtu.be/Kz1w40TbNjQ

Orchestration BEyond: Build AI That Ships YouTube video by Kestra

Missed our AI webinar?

The replay is live on YouTube.

Check it out!

youtu.be/4WI2UsI2Mv4

Performance Upgrades for Enterprise in Kestra 1.1 Key performance wins in Kestra 1.1, from query efficiency to faster purge operations.

Kestra 1.1 brings major performance wins:

• Queries: 63s → 8ms (thanks to our engineering team and the help of Xiaomi team)
• Purge pipeline: 2.5× faster
• Smoother dashboards at scale
Full breakdown of the improvements: kestra.io/blogs/perfor...

Kestra 1.1 introduces New Filters, No-Code Dashboards, Human Tasks, AI Agent tool and Dozens of New Plugins Kestra 1.1 delivers a polished UI with redesigned filters and no-code dashboard editor, human-in-the-loop workflows for enterprise, improved air-gapped support, and dozens of new community-driven plug...

If you skipped the release post, now’s your time to catch up: kestra.io/blogs/releas...

Kestra v1.1 dropped this week, and it’s packed.

⚙️ More plugins
🧠 Smarter orchestration and automation
🎨 Refined Filters and performance boosts everywhere
🔒 Enterprise-grade control, ready for scale
🤖 Even more AI features

What’s New in Kestra 1.1: Polished UI, No-Code Dashboards, Enterprise Control & New Plugins YouTube video by Kestra

Video-guided tour of the release: youtu.be/FywYZmo2vqo

🚀 Kestra 1.1 is live!
🔍 New UI Filters
📊 No-Code Custom Dashboards
🧠 Multi-Agent AI
🤖 Fix with AI
📧 Email Trigger
📂 Smarter File Detection Triggers
🧍 Human Tasks (EE)
🎨 Apps Catalog (EE) 🔒
Improved Air-gap Support
🧩 30+ new plugins
go.kestra.io/release-1-1-x

Orchestration BEyond: Build AI That Ships Step into the next phase of orchestration with Kestra AI Agents. Join Parham, Lead Solution Architect at Kestra, for a live walkthrough of how AI moves fr...

🚀 2 days to go!
📅 Thu, Nov 6 — 2 PM GMT
See how Kestra takes AI Agents from prototype to production, no hype, just orchestration that ships.

⚙️ Connect data, APIs, MCP & Agents
🧩 Turn prompts into scalable workflows
👉 watch.getcontrast.io/register/kes...

What is AI RAG? AI Made Easy YouTube video by Kestra

🤔 What is RAG and why should you care?

RAG = Retrieval-Augmented Generation
It gives AI access to real, current knowledge, not just training data.
✅ Fewer hallucinations
✅ Smarter, accurate answers
✅ Always up-to-date

See how we use RAG in Kestra 👇
youtu.be/9nNkiRd0ESk

Join our lead Solution Architect for a live session on taking AI from prototype → production.

🧠 Learn to:
• Build event-driven automations
• Connect data, APIs & agents
• Turn prompts into real workflows
📅 Thu Nov 6 — 2 PM GMT
watch.getcontrast.io/register/kes...

Orchestrating Streams: Episode 1 — Producing Data from Kestra to Kafka Welcome to Orchestrating Streams, a blog series where I explore the space of data streaming and orchestration. In each post, I will…

🚀 New blog series from @fhussonnois.dev, Lead Software Engineer at Kestra!

Orchestrating Streams: Episode 1 — Producing Data from Kestra to Kafka

Learn how to use Kestra to produce data into Kafka without writing a single line of custom code.

medium.com/@fhussonnois...

Git Integration in Kestra: Version Control Made Easy YouTube video by Kestra

You can fix bugs.
You can’t fix chaos.

🚨 Version control your workflows with Kestra, keep prod aligned, safe & in sync.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb6V...

It’s Not Too Late to Join Hacktoberfest - Kestra Community Highlight YouTube video by Kestra

🎉 #Hacktoberfest is still running strong!

We’ve seen so many new contributors join Kestra, thank you all for your amazing PRs and ideas 💙

This Thursday, we’re going live to highlight some of the top contributions (and it’s not too late to join!)

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFb...

Build Workflows Iteratively with Playground YouTube video by Kestra

The Playground mode in Kestra lets you build workflows iteratively, one task at a time.

Perfect for data processing:
extract → inspect → transform
No need to rerun every step.

🎥 See it in action: youtu.be/p7UXd66GI1M

Build Scalable dbt Workflows with built-in Code Editor, Git Sync and Task Runners in Kestra Scale and automate dbt workflows with Kestra. Sync your dbt project from Git, scale your dbt models with Kestra's task runners, and edit dbt code directly from the built-in code Editor in the UI!

🔮 dbt + Fivetran
We merged these tools a while ago.
Kestra natively integrates with both, orchestrating every step from ingestion to transformation, testing & deployment.

Learn more about how Kestra works with dbt 👇

kestra.io/blogs/2024-1...

Get Started with Hacktoberfest YouTube video by Kestra

🎉 #Hacktoberfest is in full swing, and the excitement around Kestra is incredible!

We’re only 10 days in and the community response has been amazing, so many new contributors, ideas & PRs. 💙

We’ve put together a live session to help you get started
🎥 www.youtube.com/live/gD0SI9H...