Kestra Launches 1.0, an Enterprise-Ready Orchestration Platform Built for the Declarative Agentic Future

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kestra Technologies, the unified orchestration platform trusted by Apple, Toyota, Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom and BHP, among other Fortune 500 companies, today announced the launch of Kestra 1.0, a stable, Long-Term Support (LTS) release of its enterprise-grade, open-source orchestration engine, proven to cut automation costs by up to 40% and speed deployment from months to days, all while maintaining full governance and control.

Kestra 1.0 is the only orchestrator that unifies all automations. Built for massive workloads across data, AI, infrastructure, and business operations, it combines proven reliability with a future-ready approach: Declarative Agentic Orchestration.

Across industries, tech leaders face familiar blockers: tools scattered across silos, gaps in governance, vendor lock-in, and slow integrations that can take months. The result is higher costs, slower delivery, and poor visibility.

Kestra 1.0 replaces this widespread issue with a single orchestration layer that spans every domain, delivering unified governance, full auditability, and open-source flexibility without compromising scale or performance. Workflows that once took days to connect now deploy in minutes, customers report up to 40% lower infrastructure costs by consolidating tools, and onboarding for new automations is up to three times faster, with complete audit trails simplifying compliance and speeding incident resolution.

Kestra has executed billions of workflows across industries, handling the scale, complexity, and governance needs of some of the world's largest organizations:

• Fila orchestrates 2.5 million executions monthly, distributed across over 2,000 workflows, all managed by just 25 engineers.
  "Kestra has transformed how we build and maintain flows we push, and everything just works, audit logs, visibility, all in place," says John Kim, IT Lead at Fila.
• Acxiom supports over 50 enterprise clients with their orchestration needs, powered by more than 120 engineers using Kestra's secure, multi-tenant architecture.
  "Kestra gave us autonomy without compromising governance. It's a rare, powerful combination," notes the director of engineering at Acxiom.
• Leroy Merlin saw 900% growth in data throughput, 5,000+ active workflows, and onboarding of 250+ data users.
  "Scaling from dozens to thousands of workflows overnight wouldn't be possible without Kestra's trustworthy control plane," says Julien Henrion, Head of Data Engineering at Leroy Merlin France.

Entering the Agentic Orchestration Era

Agentic Orchestration lets you tell the system what you want, and Kestra figures out how to make it happen with full control and auditability.

For many enterprises, orchestration platforms are either opaque black boxes or overly complex systems that only senior engineers can manage. This creates bottlenecks, fuels shadow IT, and prevents consistent governance.

Declarative Agentic Orchestration solves this issue: teams define the desired outcome in natural language, and Kestra's AI agents generate, optimize, and execute the workflows. Every action is version-controlled, fully auditable, and subject to whatever level of human oversight the organization requires.

"We pioneered declarative orchestration. With 1.0, we elevate that paradigm through AI, enabling users to express intent in natural language while maintaining full governance."
 – Emmanuel Darras, CEO & Co-Founder of Kestra

This approach bridges skill gaps, eliminates reliance on black-box tools, and accelerates automation while keeping governance, compliance, and trust as a first-class citizen.

Key highlights of Kestra 1.0 include:

• Enterprise-Grade Stability & Security: LTS release with predictable upgrades, backward-compatible architecture, role-based access control, encrypted secrets, and tenant isolation, proven in high-volume, regulated environments.
  
  
• Open & Flexible: 100% open-source core, no vendor lock-in, full local development without licensing constraints, and the option to run entirely open source if market conditions change.
  
  
• Unified Development Experience: Build workflows in YAML, through SDKs (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go), or via the no-code UI, all version-controlled, auditable, and CI/CD-ready.
  
  
• Extensive Integration Ecosystem: 700+ plugins for data, AI, and infrastructure, with safe, staged upgrades in Enterprise Edition.
  
  
• Deploy Anywhere: On-premises, any cloud, or air-gapped environments, OSS and Enterprise alike.
  
  
• AI-Ready Orchestration: Prompt-native interface, human-in-the-loop approvals, and AI agents that generate, optimize, and execute workflows, with full governance and auditability.

This blend of stability, openness, and AI-ready orchestration positions Kestra 1.0 as the orchestration standard for enterprises that need reliability.

Anchoring in the U.S.

Kestra has maintained momentum for the last several quarters. In late 2024, the company closed an $8 million seed round, with follow-on investments from numerous founders and CEOs of leading technology companies, including Olivier Pomel (Datadog); Clément Delangue (Hugging Face); Tristan Handy (dbt Labs); Bertrand Diard (Talend); Michel Tricot (Airbyte), and Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia, Y Combinator). The company powers billions of workflows for 10,000+ organizations with more than 20,000+ GitHub stars. A new U.S. entity and local hiring strengthen support for enterprise customers around the world.

"Our mission is to make enterprise orchestration open, accessible, and future-ready for every team, no matter their size, skill level, or industry. With a global presence, we bring our vision closer to our customers, ensuring they have local expertise, faster support, and a partner who grows with them."
 – Emmanuel Darras, CEO & Co-Founder of Kestra

If your orchestration stack is fragmented, slow, or expensive, Kestra 1.0 empowers you to unify, govern, and accelerate your workflows without lock-in.

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About Kestra
Kestra Technologies is the company behind Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform redefining how the world automates. Founded in 2019 by Emmanuel Darras, founder of Ankama, the global gaming and entertainment group with 100M+ players, and Ludovic Dehon, creator of AKHQ, the leading open-source Apache Kafka interface, Kestra has grown into a global company with a world-class team from around the world.

Trusted by 10,000+ organizations and backed by a thriving open-source community with over 20,000 GitHub stars, Kestra unifies data, AI, infrastructure, and business operations in a single, enterprise-ready platform that simplifies complexity, accelerates delivery, and enforces governance without compromise.

With billions of workflows executed for some of the world's most iconic brands, our vision is bold:
to orchestrate everything, for everyone, everywhere, all at once.

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