Free Temporal Workflow Alternatives

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.

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.

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.