Plugins Aren't Just Integrations Anymore

Kestra 2.0 expands its plugin system beyond task integrations, surpassing 2,000 plugins and introducing extensible policy rules, log data stores, file preview renderers, queue implementations, and UI artifacts that let plugins provide rich in-platform visualizations. Enterprise policy rules replace flow-level pluginDefaults, requiring users to migrate affected flows before upgrading, while configurable log stores can move execution logs out of the main database and support optional historical migration. Plugin authors can now create custom previews for formats such as Parquet or Avro, supply Vue-based UI components through the Artifact SDK, and organize large task forms with property groups, while the new slim container image reduces the default installation size and can automatically fetch plugins during local open-source use. Kestra maintains intentional backward compatibility with most 1.x plugins despite core changes such as Java 25, although several core execution-management tasks have moved to API-based replacements in the Kestra plugin SDK. The release also adds numerous cloud, AI, infrastructure, security, storage, and task-runner integrations, reflecting Kestra’s broader focus on orchestrating private infrastructure and operational workflows as well as data pipelines.

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