Zeebe - Workflow Engine for Microservices Orchestration
Zeebe provides visibility into and control over business processes that span multiple microservices. It is the engine that powers Camunda Cloud.
Why Zeebe?
- Define processes visually in BPMN 2.0
- Choose your programming language
- Deploy with Docker and Kubernetes
- Build processes that react to messages from Kafka and other message queues
- Scale horizontally to handle very high throughput
- Fault tolerance (no relational database required)
- Export process data for monitoring and analysis
- Engage with an active community
Release Lifecycle
Our release cadence within major releases is a minor release every three months, with an alpha release on each of the two months between minor releases. Releases happen on the second Tuesday of the month, Berlin time (CET).
Minor releases are supported with patches for six months after their release.
Here is a diagram illustrating the lifecycle of minor releases over a 13-month period:
Status
To learn more about what we're currently working on, check the GitHub issues and the latest commits.
Helpful Links
- Releases
- Docker images
- Blog
- Documentation Home
- Issue Tracker
- User Forum
- Slack Channel
- Contribution Guidelines
Recommended Docs Entries for New Users
- What is Camunda Cloud?
- Getting Started Tutorial
- Technical Concepts
- BPMN Processes
- Configuration
- Java Client
- Go Client
Contributing
Read the Contributions Guide.
Code of Conduct
This project adheres to the Camunda Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior as soon as possible.
License
Zeebe source files are made available under the Zeebe Community License Version 1.1 except for the parts listed below, which are made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See individual source files for details.
Available under the Apache License, Version 2.0:
- Java Client (clients/java)
- Go Client (clients/go)
- Exporter API (exporter-api)
- Protocol (protocol)
- Gateway Protocol Implementation (gateway-protocol-impl)
- BPMN Model API (bpmn-model)
Clarification on gRPC Code Generation
The Zeebe Gateway Protocol (API) as published in the gateway-protocol is licensed under the Zeebe Community License 1.1. Using gRPC tooling to generate stubs for the protocol does not constitute creating a derivative work under the Zeebe Community License 1.1 and no licensing restrictions are imposed on the resulting stub code by the Zeebe Community License 1.1.