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Kestra’s Blog
Company blog · kestra.io · on HN as tchiotludodataprogramming
Kestra’s Blog is the company blog at kestra.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Open source data orchestration and scheduling platform”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment recommends Kestra as a workflow orchestrator that can run on a single node. It says nothing about the blog's writing, and the link goes to the Kestra product homepage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
Most-linked posts?
- Open source data orchestration and scheduling platform3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-02
What Hacker News says?
I'd recommend Kestra[1] since it can be run on a single node [1] https://kestra.io/
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on “Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator”Submitted Open source data orchestration and scheduling platform as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSorry, I didn't see your comment before. We provide 2 image tag, one with no plugins and one with all plugin, more information here ; https://kestra.io/docs/administrator-guide/deployment/docker... In resume, all image exist with tag full containing all plugins
Comment linking /docs/administrator-guide/deployment/docker/
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted Detailed Comparison Between Polars, DuckDB, Pandas, Modin, Ponder, Fugue, Daft as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can easily scale down for small project using a mono node using a simple docker compose setup: https://kestra.io/docs/getting-started/ Working well on a standard laptop easily
Comment linking /docs/getting-started/
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted Analyze and Process Log Files with Azure Blob Storage, Azure Batch, and Kestra as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAirflow have design issue and performance issue, If you want to have some details, you can find some reason on this article: https://kestra.io/blogs/2022-02-22-leroy-merlin-usage-kestra... . For other workflow engine (dagster, prefect, ...), we decided to use a complete different approach on how to build a pipeline. Since others decide to use python code, we decided to go to descriptive language (like terraform for…
Comment linking /blogs/2022-02-22-leroy-merlin-usage-kestra.html
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted Our Open-Source Journey: What We Got Right (and Wrong) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, of course! You have 3 solutions for that: - you can use this task using runner:DOCKER property and choose the image: https://kestra.io/plugins/core/tasks/scripts/io.kestra.core.... - you can also use PodCreate to launch a pod on a kubernetes cluster: https://kestra.io/plugins/plugin-kubernetes/tasks/io.kestra.... - you have also CustomJob from VertexAI on GCP to be able to launch a container a ephemeral cluster…
Comment linking /plugins/plugin-gcp/tasks/vertexai/io.kestra.plugin.gcp.vertexai.CustomJob.html
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted Tech Salaries Parsing from 2020 to 2023 with DuckDB and Orchestrated with Kestra as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSorry I don't understand, we display with pretty print, see here : https://kestra.io/assets/img/05.8b5545ef.png It's not as json ? or I don't understand where you see that.
Comment linking /assets/img/05.8b5545ef.png
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted Dbt or SQLMesh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor now, we don't provide a SAAS for Kestra, it's definitely on the roadmap and our next project. In a meantime, we provide different installation : - Docker compose: https://kestra.io/docs/administrator-guide/deployment/docker... - Kubernetes: https://kestra.io/docs/administrator-guide/deployment/kubern... - Jar: https://kestra.io/docs/administrator-guide/deployment/manual... Kestra is not so complicated to be inst…
Comment linking /docs/administrator-guide/deployment/manual/
on “Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative”Submitted 2024 Data Engineering Trends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Near real-time data pipeline management with Debezium and Kestra as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful Orchestration, Everything as Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kestra, Open Source Declarative Data Orchestration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private App Store for Data Pipelines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techniques You Should Know as a Kafka Streams Developer as a story · 1 points
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