This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Kestra Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected].
When contributing to this project, you must agree that you have authored 100% of the content, that you have the necessary rights to the content and that the content you contribute may be provided under the project license.
Bug reports help us make Kestra better for everyone. We provide a preconfigured template for bugs to make it very clear what information we need. Please search within our already reported bugs before raising a new one to make sure you're not raising a duplicate.
Please do not create a public GitHub issue. If you've found a security issue, please email us directly at [email protected] instead of raising an issue.
To request new features, please create an issue on this project. If you would like to suggest a new feature, we ask that you please use our issue template. It contains a few essential questions that help us understand the problem you are looking to solve and how you think your recommendation will address it. To see what has already been proposed by the community, you can look here. Watch out for duplicates! If you are creating a new issue, please check existing open, or recently closed. Having a single voted for issue is far easier for us to prioritize.
The following dependencies are required to build Kestra locally:
- Java 21+
- Node 18+ and npm
- Python 3, pip and python venv
- Docker & Docker Compose
- an IDE (Intellij IDEA, Eclipse or VS Code)
To start contributing:
- Fork the repository
- Clone the fork on your workstation:
git clone [email protected]:{YOUR_USERNAME}/kestra.git
cd kestra
The backend is made with Micronaut.
Open the cloned repository in your favorite IDE. In most of decent IDEs, Gradle build will be detected and all dependencies will be downloaded.
You can also build it from a terminal using ./gradlew build
, the Gradle wrapper will download the right Gradle version to use.
- You may need to enable java annotation processors since we are using them.
- On IntelliJ IDEA, click on Run -> Edit Configurations -> + Add new Configuration to create a run configuration to start Kestra.
- The main class is
io.kestra.cli.App
from modulekestra.cli.main
. - Pass as program arguments the server you want to work with, for example
server local
will start the standalone local. You can also useserver standalone
and use the provideddocker-compose-ci.yml
Docker compose file to start a standalone server with a real database as a backend that would need to be configured properly. - Configure the following environment variables:
MICRONAUT_ENVIRONMENTS
: can be set to any string and will load a custom configuration file incli/src/main/resources/application-{env}.yml
.KESTRA_PLUGINS_PATH
: is the path where you will save plugins as Jar and will be load on startup.
- See the screenshot below for an example:
- If you encounter JavaScript memory heap out error during startup, configure
NODE_OPTIONS
environment variable with some large value.
- The main class is
- The server starts by default on port 8080 and is reachable on
http://localhost:8080
If you want to launch all tests, you need Python and some packages installed on your machine, on Ubuntu you can install them with:
sudo apt install python3 pip python3-venv
python3 -m pip install virtualenv
The frontend is made with Vue.js and located on the /ui
folder.
npm install
- create a file
ui/.env.development.local
with contentVITE_APP_API_URL=http://localhost:8080
(or your actual server url) npm run dev
will start the development server with hot reload.- The server start by default on port 5173 and is reachable on
http://localhost:5173
- You can run
npm run build
in order to build the front-end that will be delivered from the backend (without running thenpm run dev
) above.
Now, you need to start a backend server, you could:
- start a local server without a database using this docker-compose file already configured with CORS enabled:
services:
kestra:
image: kestra/kestra:latest
user: "root"
command: server local
environment:
KESTRA_CONFIGURATION: |
micronaut:
server:
cors:
enabled: true
configurations:
all:
allowedOrigins:
- http://localhost:5173
ports:
- "8080:8080"
- start the Develop backend from your IDE, you need to configure CORS restrictions when using the local development npm server, changing the backend configuration allowing the http://localhost:5173 origin in
cli/src/main/resources/application-override.yml
micronaut:
server:
cors:
enabled: true
configurations:
all:
allowedOrigins:
- http://localhost:5173
For testing purposes, you can use the Makefile
provided at the project's root to build and deploy Kestra locally.
By default, Kestra will be installed under: $HOME/.kestra/current
. Set the KESTRA_HOME
environment variable to override default.
# build and install Kestra
make install
# install plugins (plugins installation is based on the `.plugins` or `.plugins.override` files located at the root of the project.
make install-plugins
# start Kestra in standalone mode with Postgres as backend
make start-standalone-postgres
Note: the local installation writes logs into the ~/.kestra/current/logs/
directory.
A complete documentation for developing plugin can be found here.
The main documentation is located in a separate repository. For tasks documentation, they are located directly in the Java source, using Swagger annotations (Example: for Bash tasks)