Application
Automation & Integration
Flyte
1Kubernetes-native 2orchestration 3for 4data 5and 6ML
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
ML and data engineering teams building reliable, reproducible production pipelines at scale.
W2
What
A Kubernetes native workflow orchestration platform for building versioned, reproducible data and machine learning pipelines in Python.
W3
Where
Self-hosted on Kubernetes, or used via Union.ai's managed hosted version.
W4
When
Open sourced by Lyft in 2020, now a CNCF-hosted project actively developed in 2026.
W5
Why
Combines strong typing, caching and versioning with Kubernetes scale for reliable ML pipeline execution.
W6
With
Requires a Kubernetes cluster plus the flytekit Python SDK to author and register workflows.
W7
Watch
Open source under Apache-2.0, self-hosted, optional managed hosted tier from Union.ai, over 7k GitHub stars.