Argo Workflows

Kubernetes-native workflow engine for container jobs

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Last committoday19 Oct 2026

LicenceApache-2.0SPDX, from the repository

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Argo Workflows is an open-source Kubernetes-native workflow engine for parallel jobs and DAGs as containers. Common in cloud-native data and ML ops.

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Runs on	Linux, Self-hosted
Hosting	Self-host
Commercial use	Allowed Open-source licence (Apache-2.0): the Open Source Definition rules out restrictions on fields of use, including business use.

Sources: argoproj.github.io/workflows · opensource.org/osd, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs on” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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Status	Open source
Licence	Apache-2.0
Platforms	Linux, Self-hosted
Category	Data pipelines & ETL
Website	argoproj.github.io
Source	GitHub

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