Brookit

Brookit is an open-source workflow orchestration framework designed to manage tasks and data pipelines across distributed environments. It provides a declarative workflow language and a runtime that handles task scheduling, dependencies, retries, and resource allocation, enabling developers to build repeatable, fault-tolerant automation across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.

Originating with a group of engineers at Brookit Labs in 2019, Brookit was released publicly in 2020. The project is maintained by an active open-source community and funded by corporate sponsors. Over successive major versions, it has prioritized portability, observability, and native cloud-native deployment.

Its architecture centers on a directed acyclic graph (DAG) scheduler and pluggable executors that can run tasks locally, in containers, or as serverless functions. Brookit offers bindings for multiple languages, including Python, JavaScript, and Go, and supports Kubernetes operators and Docker-based runtimes. It emphasizes strong observability through metrics, logs, and traces.

Brookit is used for data processing pipelines, automation of CI/CD workflows, and IT operational tasks. It is released under the MIT license and maintains a plugin ecosystem for data stores, message queues, and cloud services. While broadly adopted by small and mid-sized teams, enterprises typically evaluate it for experimentation or as a supplementary automation layer.