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Conductor

Netflix's microservice orchestration engine (Open Source)

★ Stars32.3k32,336 on GitHub
Last commit16 Oct 2026
LicenceApache-2.0SPDX, from the repository
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Conductor is Netflix's workflow orchestration engine for microservices. Orkes offers a commercial platform; the OSS project remains available.

Fit: hosting and licence

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

Sources: github.com/conductor-oss/conductor · 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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