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AkôFlow - Open Source Engine for Containerized Scientific Workflows

AkôFlow is an open-source engine for orchestrating and executing container-based scientific workflows in the computing continuum. It was originally developed within the e-Science Research Group at the Institute of Computing, Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Although initially focused on Kubernetes-based workloads, AkôFlow has evolved to support general containerized execution across multiple infrastructures.

• To learn more about AkôFlow, please visit our project page: https://akoflow.com/

• To see our documentation, please visit: https://uffescience.github.io/akoflow/

Getting Started

AkôFlow can be installed and run with a single command, making it easy to get started with containerized workflow execution.

curl -fsSL https://akoflow.com/run | bash 

Docker images

All images are published to Docker Hub for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

Releases

New versions are released automatically when a tag in the format v0.x.y is pushed to this repository.
Each release includes binaries, desktop installers, and versioned Docker images.

See all releases: https://github.com/UFFeScience/akoflow/releases

Contributors

• D.Sc. Daniel de Oliveira — Research Advisor
• Wesley Ferreira - @ovvesley — Maintainer - IC/UFF
• Liliane Kunstmann - COPPE/UFRJ
• Debora Pina - COPPE/UFRJ
• Raphael Garcia — IC/UFF
• Yuri Frota — IC/UFF
• Marcos Bedo — IC/UFF
• Aline Paes — IC/UFF
• Luan Teylo — INRIA/Université de Bordeaux

Publications (in Portuguese)

• Ferreira, W., Kunstmann, L., Paes, A., Bedo, M., & de Oliveira, D. (2024, October). AkôFlow: um Middleware para execução de Workflows científicos em múltiplos ambientes conteinerizados. In 39th Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados (SBBD) (pp. 27-39). SBC. (DOI:10.5753/sbbd.2024.241126.)

• Ferreira, W., Kunstmann, L., Garcia R., Bedo, M., & de Oliveira, D. (2025, October). Plug and Flow: Execução de Workflows Científicos em Contêineres com o Middleware AkôFlow. In 40th Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados (SBBD). (Paper just accepted)

Academic Context

AkôFlow originated as a final undergraduate project and has since expanded with broader contributions and integrations. It continues to serve both academic and industrial workflow execution scenarios.