Devtron vs DolphinScheduler
Devtron and DolphinScheduler are both workflow engine software. Devtron is open source under Apache-2.0, with 5.6k GitHub stars. DolphinScheduler is open source under Apache-2.0, with 15k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Devtron when
- A team wants one UI to deploy and manage apps across Kubernetes clusters without stitching tools together.
- Pick DolphinScheduler when
- A data platform team wants visual, low-code pipeline scheduling at scale, a common choice in China instead of Airflow.
Side by side
A Kubernetes dashboard and delivery platform with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps via Argo CD, Helm app management and access control.
A distributed data workflow scheduler with a visual DAG editor, multi-tenant support and many task types for Spark, Hive, SQL and shell jobs.
It installs many components into your cluster, and some features are in the enterprise edition.
A multi-component Java cluster with ZooKeeper or a database registry to operate.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server (both)
Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and Argo CD
Java, TypeScript, ZooKeeper, PostgreSQL and MySQL
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive) (both)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
5.6k GitHub stars
15k GitHub stars
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v2.2.0.
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 3.4.3.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.