Conductor

An open-source, event-driven workflow engine for durable execution of application and AI agent workflows.

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About Conductor

Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine originally built at Netflix and now maintained as an open-source project. It runs long-lived, event-driven workflows for applications and AI agents with durable, resilient execution, so steps survive failures and restarts.

You run the server yourself, and the repository includes Docker setups and modules for storage and queues such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 and SQS, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage and AMQP. It suits engineering teams coordinating many services or agent steps.

Strengths

  • Durable, fault-tolerant workflow execution
  • Designed for both services and AI agents
  • Many storage and queue backends
  • Docker setups included

Limitations

  • A server platform that takes effort to deploy and operate
  • Aimed at developers, not end users

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source.
License
Open source, license not stated
Developer
The Conductor contributors
Platforms
Self-hosted
How it runs
Self-hosted
Account
Not required
Best suited for
Engineering teams orchestrating microservices or AI agent workflows
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