Temporal Workflow Alternatives

n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. n8n can be self-hosted, while also being provided as a managed sulotion at n8n.io. The software can easily be extended and integrated with popular third-party services such as Github, Slack and many more.

Apache Airflow is a community created workflow management platform. The software is both free and open-source, and can be used to reduce complexity in organizations workflow. Apache Airflow is modular by nature, and has an architecture that makes it easy to customize to organizations specific needs. The software was was first developed at Airbnb to where it was used to programmatically author and schedule their workflows, allowing the organization to monitor them via the built-in Airflow dashboard.

With Zapier you can connect apps and automate your workflows. Zapier is an automation service that let's you link third-party web applications together so they can share data and events with each other. These workflow events are called Zaps and can be used to build process and automation chains, so that you can get more done.

Rundeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. With Rundeck you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes. Rundeck is avalible as two versions, Rundeck Community and Rundeck Enterprise, where the first mentiond is built for small teams. It addresses the technical complexity of Runbook Automation for solving non-production self-service. The later is aimed at teams and organizations at scale. It addresses the organizational complexity of teams and multiple clusters with self-service, incident response, and compliance and auditing features.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. It allows infrastructure to be expressed as code in a simple, human readable language called HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). The Terraform CLI automatically reads configuration files and provides an execution plan of changes, which can be reviewed for safety and then applied and provisioned.

WorkFlowy is a web-based application that offers a simpler way to stay organized. If you have a crazy job or an ambitious project, WorkFlowy will be your trusty sidekick. The application is created by Mike Turitzin and Jesse Patel and was picked up by Y Combinator startup camp in 2011. Central to the application is text-based nested list that can be intuitively used to orginize your projects.

Jenkins is a free and open source DevOps tool used for ticket systems and CI/CD infrastructure. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any software project. The tool is a self-contained Java-based program that is ready to run out-of-the-box, with packages for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix-like operating systems. Anyone is free to contribute to Jenkins, and the software is released under the MIT license.

StackStorm is an event driven automation platform that can be used for auto remediation, security event handling and infrastructure automation. Connect third-party applications with your stack to eliminate repetitive tasks and automate important events. StackStorm allows you to create if/then rules for complex workflows for DevOps and popular third-party services.

Apache Hudi is a free and open source tool for ingesting and managing storage of large analytical datasets over DFS. With Hudi you can stream and process bid data by an order of magnitude faster than traditional batch processing. Apache Hudi work with Apache Spark and integrates well with third-party services like Amazon EMR, AWS Glue Catalog, AWS Lambda, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Google Bigtable, WebHDFS and Google Cloud Tasks.