Process

Task runner that executes a task as a subprocess on the Kestra host.

To access the task's working directory, use the {{workingDir}} Pebble expression or the WORKING_DIR environment variable. Input files and namespace files will be available in this directory.

To generate output files you can either use the outputFiles task's property and create a file with the same name in the task's working directory, or create any file in the output directory which can be accessed by the {{outputDir}} Pebble expression or the OUTPUT_DIR environment variables.

Note that:

This task runner is independent of any Operating System. You can use it equally on Linux, Mac, or Windows without any additional configuration.
When the Kestra Worker running this task is shut down, the process will be interrupted and re-created as soon as the worker is restarted.

yaml
type: "io.kestra.plugin.core.runner.Process"

Examples

Execute a Shell command.

yaml
id: new_shell
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: shell
    type: io.kestra.plugin.scripts.shell.Commands
    taskRunner:
      type: io.kestra.plugin.core.runner.Process
    commands:
      - echo "Hello World"

Install custom Python packages before executing a Python script. Note how we use the --break-system-packages flag to avoid conflicts with the system packages. Make sure to use this flag if you see errors similar to error: externally-managed-environment.

yaml
id: before_commands_example
namespace: company.team

inputs:
  - id: url
    type: URI
    defaults: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1

tasks:
  - id: transform
    type: io.kestra.plugin.scripts.python.Script
    taskRunner:
      type: io.kestra.plugin.core.runner.Process
    beforeCommands:
      - pip install kestra requests --break-system-packages
    script: |
      import requests
      from kestra import Kestra

      url = "{{ inputs.url }}"

      response = requests.get(url)
      print('Status Code:', response.status_code)
      Kestra.outputs(response.json())

Pass input files to the task, execute a Shell command, then retrieve output files.

yaml
id: new_shell_with_file
namespace: company.team

inputs:
  - id: file
    type: FILE

tasks:
  - id: shell
    type: io.kestra.plugin.scripts.shell.Commands
    inputFiles:
      data.txt: "{{inputs.file}}"
    outputFiles:
      - out.txt
    taskRunner:
      type: io.kestra.plugin.core.runner.Process
    commands:
      - cp {{workingDir}}/data.txt {{workingDir}}/out.txt

Properties

version string

Validation RegExp \d+\.\d+\.\d+(-[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)?|([a-zA-Z0-9]+)

The version of the plugin to use.

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