Welcome to Boomerang Flow 👋

Boomerang Flow is the easiest way to build, automate, and optimize workflows - without writing a single line of code... unless you really want to! With our fully extensible model, you can bring a script, bring a container, or write your own tasks from scratch.

Whether you're a solo operator or managing a team, our intuitive drag-and-drop builder helps you streamline repetitive tasks, integrate with your favourite tools, and ensure everything runs smoothly.

Create workflows composed of reusable logic that you define, using our tasks for automatically retriable steps and human-in-the-loop flows using actions or wait for event.

Why use Boomerang Flow?

✅ Automate with Ease – Build workflows visually without coding. Just drag, drop, and connect.

✅ Powerful Integrations – Connect with any APIs effortlessly.

✅ Reliable Execution – Runs are queued and reliably executed to ensure stability.

✅ Flexible Triggers – Start workflows manually, on a schedule, via API, or from event-driven sources.

✅ Scalable & Secure – Designed for teams and enterprises with access control, logging, and monitoring.

✅ Detailed Runs & Insights – View each workflow run in detail, including logs, execution history, and step-by-step progress for easy troubleshooting.

✅ Fully Extensible – Bring your own task using the open-source Tekton.dev model or write custom code packaged as a BYO container.

Ready to Automate? Get Started Quickly 🎯

New here?

Follow our 5-step Quick Start guide to build your first workflow in minutes!

FAQ

Get answers to your questions!

I want to try it out...

Spend your first few minutes in a Tutorial. Its the best way to explore practical examples to understand the features.

Want to know more?

The Guides are a great way to learn a specific use case. Whether it be management of the system, or running a Workflow.

I'm stuck!

Need help? Want to contribute? Boomerang Flow is developed in the open with a helpful community. Come and chat with us in Slack!

Familiarize yourself with the concepts

The Fundamentals will help you in mastering the basics. Get yourself geared up with a drink and some Tim Tams, then dive deep into all the building blocks

Workflows

Create, view, and manage your personal and team workflows from a centralized location

Activity

View the real-time status, logs, outputs, and run times of your workflow activity past and present as well as diving deep into the individual workflows.

Actions

Access your manual actions and respond to needed approvals.

Insights

View metrics and statistics on Workflow executions over time, showing peak execution periods, average run times, and percentage of success and failures.

Schedules

View, create, and manage your Workflow Schedules with a Calendar based view.

Manage your Team

Provides ability for teams to manage users, set team parameters, define team tasks, create API tokens, and define approval groups.

Self Hosting

Shall we dance?

Learn what it takes, and how, to install your own Boomerang Flow.

Administer

Provides ability for Administrators to control the instance of Boomerang Flow.

Getting help

We’d love to hear from you or give you a hand getting started. Here are some ways to get in touch with us.

Community - Learn more about the Boomerang Flow community and how to get involved
Slack - Join our community and chat with us in real-time
GitHub Issues - Report bugs, request features, or contribute to the project
GitHub Project Board - See what we’re working on and what’s coming next

Sponsors & Contributors

Note: Boomerang Flow is an open source project part of Boomerang-io, built cloud native on top of Kubernetes^®

IBM Consulting Advantage

As Boomerang Flow was contributed to open source, and continues to be sponsored by IBM, integration is enabled with IBM Consulting^® Advantage. Flow is supported out-of-the box, providing additional enterprise capabilities such as audit logging, consent management, and user and team role management via the broader IBM platform. There are also Tasks available that rely on platform services.

At installation time, you can configure whether to run Boomerang Flow in standalone mode (default) or integrated to IBM Consulting Advantage.

Backstop

The team behind Backstop are some of the original creators of Boomerang Flow and continue to support the Open Source community. They also provide a free tier of their managed service and benefits for the open source community - Try it out!