Windmill
Windmill offers execution runtime, orchestrator, app builder as a self-hosted workflow automation.
Overview
Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal. What is Windmill? An open-source workflow engine and developer platform to build endpoints, workflows, UIs and AI agents. The project has 16K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
We recommend using Nix. See ./frontend/README_DEV.md for all options.
Normalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
binary, docker, docker compose, helm, kubernetes, mysql, npm, one click deploy, plugins, postgresql, rest api, sso, webhooks.
Deploy
Features
Authentication & Access
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
Integrations & APIs
- Plugin / Extension System
- REST API
- Webhooks
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