Software

Semaphore expects you to know Ansible. It doesn’t simplify syntax. It won’t warn you about destructive playbooks. It’s not a sandbox — it’s a safe trigger.

Kapitan isn’t for simple setups. If you’ve got two services and one dev environment, this is probably too much.

Luigi doesn’t have a cool UI. It doesn’t have a company behind it selling support. It might even feel dated. But it’s stable. And if your workloads live in Python and run in steps — this is one of the very few tools that treats them with respect.

Airflow won’t write the logic for you. It won’t install your packages. It won’t babysit your scripts. But it gives you a structured place to put them — and a framework to treat automation as part of the system, not glue code between crontabs.