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windmill.dev

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Open-source developer infrastructure for internal tools. Self-hostable alternative to Airplane, Pipedream, Superblocks and a simplified Temporal with autogenerated UIs to trigger workflows and scripts as internal apps. Scripts are turned into UIs and no-code modules, no-code modules can be composed into very rich flows, and script and flows can be triggered from internal UIs made with a low-code builder. The script languages supported are: Python, Typescript, Go, Bash.

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Try it (personal workspaces are free forever): https://app.windmill.dev

Documentation: https://docs.windmill.dev

Discord: https://discord.gg/V7PM2YHsPB

Hub: https://hub.windmill.dev

Contributor's guide: https://docs.windmill.dev/docs/contributors_guide

Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/windmill-labs/projects/2

You can show your support for the project by starring this repo.

Windmill Labs offers commercial licenses, an enterprise edition, local hub mirrors, and support: contact [email protected].


Windmill

Disclaimer: Windmill is in BETA. It is secure to run in production but we are still improving the product fast.

Windmill Screenshot Windmill Screenshot

Windmill is fully open-sourced (AGPLv3):

Main Concepts

  1. Define a minimal and generic script in Python, Typescript, Go or Bash that solves a specific task. Here sending an email with SMTP. The code can be defined in the provided Web IDE or synchronized with your own github repo: Step 1

  2. Your scripts parameters are automatically parsed and generate a frontend. Step 2 Step 3

  3. Make it flow! You can chain your scripts or scripts made by the community shared on WindmillHub. Step 4

  4. Build complex UI on top of your scripts and flows. Step 5

Scripts and flows can also be triggered by a cron schedule '*/5 * * * *' or through webhooks.

You can build your entire infra on top of Windmill!

CLI

We have a powerful CLI to interact with the windmill platform and sync your scripts from your own github repo. See more details

CLI Screencast

Layout

  • backend/: Rust backend
  • frontend: Svelte frontend
  • lsp/: Lsp asssistant for the monaco editor
  • <lang>-client/: Windmill client for the given <lang>

Stack

  • Postgres as the database
  • backend in Rust with the following highly-available and horizontally scalable architecture:
    • stateless API backend
    • workers that pull jobs from a queue in Postgres (and later, Kafka or Redis. Upvote #173 if interested )
  • frontend in Svelte
  • scripts executions are sandboxed using google's nsjail
  • javascript runtime is the deno_core rust library (which itself uses the rusty_v8 and hence V8 underneath)
  • typescript runtime is deno
  • python runtime is python3
  • golang runtime is 1.19.1

Security

Sandboxing and workload isolation

Windmill uses nsjail on top of the deno sandboxing. It is production multi-tenant grade secure. Do not take our word for it, take fly.io's one

Secrets, credentials and sensitive values

There is one encryption key per workspace to encrypt the credentials and secrets stored in Windmill's K/V store.

In addition, we strongly recommend that you encrypt the whole Postgres database. That is what we do at https://app.windmill.dev.

Performance

Once a job started, there is no overhead compared to running the same script on the node with its corresponding runner (Deno/Go/Python/Bash). The added latency from a job being pulled from the queue, started, and then having its result sent back to the database is ~50ms. A typical lightweight deno job will take around 100ms total.

Architecture

Big-picture Architecture

Technical Architecture

How to self-host

We only provide docker-compose setup here. For more advanced setups, like compiling from source or using without a postgres super user, see documentation

Docker compose

docker compose up with the following docker-compose is sufficient: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/docker-compose.yml

Go to http://localhost et voilà :)

For older kernels < 4.18, set DISABLE_NUSER=true as env variable, otherwise nsjail will not be able to launch the isolated scripts.

To disable nsjail altogether, set DISABLE_NSJAIL=true.

The default super-admin user is: [email protected] / changeme

From there, you can create other users (do not forget to change the password!)

Kubernetes (k8s) and Helm charts

We publish helm charts at: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill-helm-charts

Commercial license

To self-host Windmill, you must respect the terms of the AGPLv3 license which you do not need to worry about for personal uses. For business uses, you should be fine if you do not re-expose it in any way Windmill to your users and are comfortable with AGPLv3.

To re-expose any Windmill parts to your users as a feature of your product, or to build a feature on top of Windmill, to comply with AGPLv3 your product must be AGPLv3 or you must get a commercial license. Contact us at [email protected] if you have any doubts.

In addition, a commercial license grants you a dedicated engineer to transition your current infrastructure to Windmill, support with tight SLA, audit logs export features, SSO, unlimited users creation, advanced permission managing features such as groups and the ability to create more than one workspace.

OAuth for self-hosting (very optional)

To get the same oauth integrations as Windmill Cloud, mount oauth.json with the following format:

{
  "<client>": {
    "id": "<CLIENT_ID>",
    "secret": "<CLIENT_SECRET>",
    "allowed_domains": ["windmill.dev"] //restrict a client OAuth login to some domains
  }
}

and mount it at /usr/src/app/oauth.json.

The redirect url for the oauth clients is: <instance_url>/user/login_callback/<client>

The list of all possible "connect an app" oauth clients

To add more "connect an app" OAuth clients to the Windmill project, read the Contributor's guide. We welcome contributions!

You may also add your own custom OAuth2 IdP and OAuth2 Resource provider:

{
  "<client>": {
    "id": "<CLIENT_ID>",
    "secret": "<CLIENT_SECRET>",
    // To add a new OAuth2 IdP
    "login_config": {
      "auth_url": "<auth_endpoint>",
      "token_url": "<token_endpoint>",
      "userinfo_url": "<userinfo endpoint>",
      "scopes": ["scope1", "scope2"],
      "extra_params": "<if_needed>"
    },
    // To add a new OAuth2 Resource
    "connect_config": {
      "auth_url": "<auth_endpoint>",
      "token_url": "<token_endpoint>",
      "scopes": ["scope1", "scope2"],
      "extra_params": "<if_needed>"
    }
  }
}

Resource types

You will also want to import all the approved resource types from WindmillHub. There is no automatic way to do this automatically currently, but it will be possible using a command with the upcoming CLI tool.

Environment Variables

Environment Variable name Default Description Api Server/Worker/All
DATABASE_URL The Postgres database url. All
DISABLE_NSJAIL true Disable Nsjail Sandboxing
NUM_WORKERS 3 The number of worker per Worker instance (set to 1 on Eks to have 1 pod = 1 worker, set to 0 for an API only instance) Worker
DISABLE_SERVER false Binary would operate as a worker only instance Worker
METRICS_ADDR None The socket addr at which to expose Prometheus metrics at the /metrics path. Set to "true" to expose it on port 8001 All
JSON_FMT false Output the logs in json format instead of logfmt All
BASE_URL http://localhost:8000 The base url that is exposed publicly to access your instance Server
BASE_INTERNAL_URL http://localhost:8000 The base url that is reachable by your workers to talk to the Servers. This help avoiding going through the external load balancer for VPC-internal requests. Worker
TIMEOUT 300 The timeout in seconds for the execution of a script Worker
SLEEP_QUEUE 50 The number of ms to sleep in between the last check for new jobs in the DB. It is multiplied by NUM_WORKERS such that in average, for one worker instance, there is one pull every SLEEP_QUEUE ms. Worker
MAX_LOG_SIZE 500000 The maximum number of characters a job can emit (log + result) Worker
DISABLE_NUSER false If Nsjail is enabled, disable the nsjail's clone_newuser setting Worker
KEEP_JOB_DIR false Keep the job directory after the job is done. Useful for debugging. Worker
LICENSE_KEY (EE only) None License key checked at startup for the Enterprise Edition of Windmill Worker
S3_CACHE_BUCKET (EE only) None The S3 bucket to sync the cache of the workers to Worker
TAR_CACHE_RATE (EE only) 100 The rate at which to tar the cache of the workers. 100 means every 100th job in average (uniformly randomly distributed). Worker
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET None The signing secret of your Slack app. See Slack documentation Server
COOKIE_DOMAIN None The domain of the cookie. If not set, the cookie will be set by the browser based on the full origin Server
SERVE_CSP None The CSP directives to use when serving the frontend static assets Server
DENO_PATH /usr/bin/deno The path to the deno binary. Worker
PYTHON_PATH /usr/local/bin/python3 The path to the python binary. Worker
GO_PATH /usr/bin/go The path to the go binary. Worker
PIP_INDEX_URL None The index url to pass for pip. Worker
PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL None The extra index url to pass to pip. Worker
PIP_TRUSTED_HOST None The trusted host to pass to pip. Worker
PATH None The path environment variable, usually inherited Worker
HOME None The home directory to use for Go and Bash , usually inherited Worker
DATABASE_CONNECTIONS 50 (Server)/3 (Worker) The max number of connections in the database connection pool All
SUPERADMIN_SECRET None A token that would let the caller act as a virtual superadmin [email protected] Server
TIMEOUT_WAIT_RESULT 20 The number of seconds to wait before timeout on the 'run_wait_result' endpoint Worker
QUEUE_LIMIT_WAIT_RESULT None The number of max jobs in the queue before rejecting immediately the request in 'run_wait_result' endpoint. Takes precedence on the query arg. If none is specified, there are no limit. Worker
DENO_AUTH_TOKENS None Custom DENO_AUTH_TOKENS to pass to worker to allow the use of private modules Worker
DENO_FLAGS None Override the flags passed to deno (default --allow-all) to tighten permissions. Minimum permissions needed are "--allow-read=args.json --allow-write=result.json" Worker
PIP_LOCAL_DEPENDENCIES None Specify dependencies that are installed locally and do not need to be solved nor installed again
ADDITIONAL_PYTHON_PATHS None Specify python paths (separated by a :) to be appended to the PYTHONPATH of the python jobs. To be used with PIP_LOCAL_DEPENDENCIES to use python codebases within Windmill Worker
INCLUDE_HEADERS None Whitelist of headers that are passed to jobs as args (separated by a comma) Server
WHITELIST_WORKSPACES None Whitelist of workspaces this worker takes job from Worker
BLACKLIST_WORKSPACES None Blacklist of workspaces this worker takes job from Worker
NEW_USER_WEBHOOK None Webhook to notify of a new user added, signup/invite. Can hook back to windmill to send emails Server

Run a local dev setup

only Frontend

This will use the backend of https://app.windmill.dev but your own frontend with hot-code reloading.

  1. Install caddy
  2. Go to frontend/:
    1. npm install, npm run generate-backend-client then npm run dev
    2. In another shell sudo caddy run --config CaddyfileRemote
  3. Et voilà, windmill should be available at http://localhost/

Backend + Frontend

See the ./frontend/README_DEV.md file for all running options.

  1. Create a Postgres Database for Windmill and create an admin role inside your Postgres setup. The easiest way to get a working postgres is running cargo install sqlx-cli && sqlx migrate run. This will also avoid compile time issue with sqlx's query! macro
  2. Install nsjail and have it accessible in your PATH
  3. Install deno and python3, have the bins at /usr/bin/deno and /usr/local/bin/python3
  4. Install caddy
  5. Install the lld linker
  6. Go to frontend/:
    1. npm install, npm run generate-backend-client then npm run dev
    2. In another shell npm run build otherwise the backend will not find the frontend/build folder and will crash
    3. In another shell sudo caddy run --config Caddyfile
  7. Go to backend/: DATABASE_URL=<DATABASE_URL_TO_YOUR_WINDMILL_DB> RUST_LOG=info cargo run
  8. Et voilà, windmill should be available at http://localhost/

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