Execute a Python script (Deprecated).

This task is deprecated, please use the io.kestra.plugin.scripts.python.Script or io.kestra.plugin.scripts.python.Commands tasks instead.

With the Python task, you can execute a full Python script. The task will create a fresh virtualenv for every tasks and allows to install some Python package define in requirements property.

By convention, you need to define at least a main.py files in inputFiles that will be the script used. But you are also able to add as many script as you need in inputFiles.

You can also add a pip.conf in inputFiles to customize the pip download of dependencies (like a private registry).

You can send outputs & metrics from your python script that can be used by others tasks. In order to help, we inject a python package directly on the working dir.Here is an example usage:

python
from kestra import Kestra
Kestra.outputs({'test': 'value', 'int': 2, 'bool': True, 'float': 3.65})
Kestra.counter('count', 1, {'tag1': 'i', 'tag2': 'win'})
Kestra.timer('timer1', lambda: time.sleep(1), {'tag1': 'i', 'tag2': 'lost'})
Kestra.timer('timer2', 2.12, {'tag1': 'i', 'tag2': 'destroy'})
yaml
type: "io.kestra.core.tasks.scripts.python"

Execute a python script.

yaml
id: python_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: python
    type: io.kestra.core.tasks.scripts.Python
    inputFiles:
      data.json: |
        {"status": "OK"}
      main.py: |
        from kestra import Kestra
        import json
        import requests
        import sys
        result = json.loads(open(sys.argv[1]).read())
        print(f"python script {result['status']}")
        response = requests.get('http://google.com')
        print(response.status_code)
        Kestra.outputs({'status': response.status_code, 'text': response.text})
      pip.conf: |
        # some specific pip repository configuration
    args:
      - data.json
    requirements:
      - requests

Execute a python script with an input file from Kestra's local storage created by a previous task.

yaml
id: python_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: python
    type: io.kestra.core.tasks.scripts.Python
    inputFiles:
      data.csv: {{outputs.previousTaskId.uri}}
      main.py: |
        with open('data.csv', 'r') as f:
          print(f.read())
Properties
SubType string

Python command args

Arguments list to pass to main python script

SubType string
Default [ "./bin/python main.py" ]
Min items 1

The commands to run

Default command will be launched with ./bin/python main.py {{args}}

Docker options when using the DOCKER runner.

SubType string

One or more additional environment variable(s) to add to the task run.

Default true

Exit if any non-true value is returned.

This tells bash that it should exit the script if any statement returns a non-true return value. Setting this to true helps catch cases where a command fails and the script continues to run anyway.

SubType string

Input files are extra files that will be available in the script's working directory.

Define the files as a map of a file name being the key, and the value being the file's content. Alternatively, configure the files as a JSON string with the same key/value structure as the map. In both cases, you can either specify the file's content inline, or reference a file from Kestra's internal storage by its URI, e.g. a file from an input, output of a previous task, or a Namespace File.

Default /bin/sh

Interpreter to use when launching the process.

SubType string
Default [ "-c" ]

Interpreter arguments to be used.

SubType string

Output file list that will be uploaded to Kestra's internal storage.

List of keys that will generate temporary files. This property can be used with a special variable named outputFiles.key. If you add a file with ["first"], you can use the special var echo 1 >> {[ outputFiles.first }}, and on other tasks, you can reference it using {{ outputs.taskId.outputFiles.first }}.

Default PIP
Possible Values
PIPUV

Package manager for Python dependencies

Package manager to use for installing Python dependencies. Options: 'UV' (default), 'PIP'.

Default python
Min length 1

The python interpreter to use

Set the python interpreter path to use

SubType string

Requirements are python dependencies to add to the python execution process

Python dependencies list to setup in the virtualenv, in the same format than requirements.txt

Default PROCESS
Possible Values
PROCESSDOCKER

The task runner.

Default true

Create a virtual env

When a virtual env is created, we will install the requirements needed. Disabled it if all the requirements is already on the file system. If you disabled the virtual env creation, the requirements will be ignored.

Default 0

The exit code of the whole execution.

SubType string

The output files' URIs in Kestra's internal storage.

Default 0

The standard error line count.

Default 0

The standard output line count.

The value extracted from the output of the commands.

The maximum amount of CPU resources a container can use.

Make sure to set that to a numeric value e.g. cpus: "1.5" or cpus: "4" or For instance, if the host machine has two CPUs and you set cpus: "1.5", the container is guaranteed at most one and a half of the CPUs.

The maximum amount of kernel memory the container can use.

The minimum allowed value is 4MB. Because kernel memory cannot be swapped out, a container which is starved of kernel memory may block host machine resources, which can have side effects on the host machine and on other containers. See the kernel-memory docs for more details.

The maximum amount of memory resources the container can use.

Make sure to use the format number + unit (regardless of the case) without any spaces. The unit can be KB (kilobytes), MB (megabytes), GB (gigabytes), etc.

Given that it's case-insensitive, the following values are equivalent:

  • "512MB"
  • "512Mb"
  • "512mb"
  • "512000KB"
  • "0.5GB"

It is recommended that you allocate at least 6MB.

Allows you to specify a soft limit smaller than memory which is activated when Docker detects contention or low memory on the host machine.

If you use memoryReservation, it must be set lower than memory for it to take precedence. Because it is a soft limit, it does not guarantee that the container doesn’t exceed the limit.

The total amount of memory and swap that can be used by a container.

If memory and memorySwap are set to the same value, this prevents containers from using any swap. This is because memorySwap includes both the physical memory and swap space, while memory is only the amount of physical memory that can be used.

A setting which controls the likelihood of the kernel to swap memory pages.

By default, the host kernel can swap out a percentage of anonymous pages used by a container. You can set memorySwappiness to a value between 0 and 100 to tune this percentage.

By default, if an out-of-memory (OOM) error occurs, the kernel kills processes in a container.

To change this behavior, use the oomKillDisable option. Only disable the OOM killer on containers where you have also set the memory option. If the memory flag is not set, the host can run out of memory, and the kernel may need to kill the host system’s processes to free the memory.

Min length 1

Docker image to use.

Docker configuration file.

Docker configuration file that can set access credentials to private container registries. Usually located in ~/.docker/config.json.

Limits the CPU usage to a given maximum threshold value.

By default, each container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles is unlimited. You can set various constraints to limit a given container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles.

SubType

A list of device requests to be sent to device drivers.

SubType string

Docker entrypoint to use.

SubType string

Extra hostname mappings to the container network interface configuration.

Docker API URI.

Limits memory usage to a given maximum threshold value.

Docker can enforce hard memory limits, which allow the container to use no more than a given amount of user or system memory, or soft limits, which allow the container to use as much memory as it needs unless certain conditions are met, such as when the kernel detects low memory or contention on the host machine. Some of these options have different effects when used alone or when more than one option is set.

Docker network mode to use e.g. host, none, etc.

Give extended privileges to this container.

Default IF_NOT_PRESENT
Possible Values
IF_NOT_PRESENTALWAYSNEVER

The image pull policy for a container image and the tag of the image, which affect when Docker attempts to pull (download) the specified image.

Size of /dev/shm in bytes.

The size must be greater than 0. If omitted, the system uses 64MB.

User in the Docker container.

SubType string

List of volumes to mount.

Must be a valid mount expression as string, example : /home/user:/app.

Volumes mount are disabled by default for security reasons; you must enable them on server configuration by setting kestra.tasks.scripts.docker.volume-enabled to true.

The registry authentication.

The auth field is a base64-encoded authentication string of username: password or a token.

The identity token.

The registry password.

The registry URL.

If not defined, the registry will be extracted from the image name.

The registry token.

The registry username.

SubType array

A list of capabilities; an OR list of AND lists of capabilities.

SubType string
SubType string

Driver-specific options, specified as key/value pairs.

These options are passed directly to the driver.