runrail is an open-source, self-hosted workflow orchestrator that enables users to automate and manage pipelines involving Python scripts, Jupyter notebooks, SQL queries, and shell commands. It is designed for data engineers and teams needing a flexible alternative to Airflow or cron for ETL and data workflow automation.
In the CI/CD & build automation space, runrail takes a focused approach. It focuses on automating and orchestrating complex data workflows across scripts, notebooks, SQL, and shell commands. runrail is an open-source project aimed at data engineers. The project is open source (Apache-2.0). It runs on the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
rutr-labs builds and maintains runrail, and the product first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 19 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 9 catalogued features are workflow orchestration, DAG scheduling, and python script support.
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