Utask

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

OVH's automation engine that runs business processes declared in YAML templates, with steps calling HTTP, scripts and other actions, plus approval and a web UI.

Adopt it when

An ops team wants auditable, templated runbooks with approvals on a Go and Postgres stack.

Watch out

Mainly maintained for OVH's own needs, with a modest outside community.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Go, PostgreSQL, TypeScript and Angular

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v1.34.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Utask → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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