Camunda 8 orchestrates complex business processes that span people, systems, and devices
Camunda 8 delivers scalable, on-demand process automation as a service. Camunda 8 is combined with powerful execution engines for BPMN processes and DMN decisions, and paired with tools for collaborative modeling, operations, and analytics.
This repository contains the core execution cluster components of Camunda 8:
- Zeebe - The cloud-native process engine of Camunda 8.
- Tasklist - Complete tasks that require human input.
- Operate - Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your processes.
- Optimize - Improve your processes by identifying constraints in your system.
In addition to the core execution cluster components, the Camunda 8 stack also includes:
- Console - Configure and deploy clusters with Console.
- Web Modeler - Web Application to model BPMN, DMN, & Forms and deploy or start new instances.
- Desktop Modeler - Use Desktop Modeler as a desktop application for modeling BPMN, DMN, and Forms with your local process application project.
- Connectors - Integrate with an external system by using a Connector.
Using Camunda 8, you can:
- 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 six months, with an alpha release on each of the five months between minor releases. Releases happen on the second Tuesday of the month, Berlin time (CET).
Minor releases are supported with patches for eighteen months after their release.
Here is a diagram illustrating the lifecycle of minor releases over a 27-month period:
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Here is a diagram illustrating the release schedule of the five alpha releases prior to an upcoming minor release over a 7-month period:
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Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
8.6-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8.6-alpha1 8.6-alpha2 8.6-alpha3 8.6-alpha4 8.6-alpha5 8.7--
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Status
To learn more about what we're currently working on, check the GitHub issues and the latest commits.
Helpful Links
- Releases
- Pre-built Docker images
- Building Docker images for other platforms
- Blog
- Documentation Home
- Issue Tracker
- User Forum
- Contribution Guidelines
Recommended Docs Entries for New Users
- What is Camunda Platform 8?
- Getting Started Tutorial
- Technical Concepts
- BPMN Processes
- Installation and Configuration
- Java Client
- Go Client
- Spring SDK
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, Operate, and Tasklist source files are made available under the
Camunda License Version 1.0 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)
- Spring SDK (spring-boot-starter-camunda-sdk)
- 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 Camunda License 1.0. Using gRPC tooling to generate stubs for
the protocol does not constitute creating a derivative work under the Camunda License 1.0 and no licensing restrictions are imposed on the
resulting stub code by the Camunda License 1.0.