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System Tasks

System tasks are built-in tasks that are general purpose and reusable. These tasks run on the Conductor servers and are executed by Conductor workers, allowing you to get started without having to write custom workers.

Here are the system tasks available in Conductor OSS:

System Task Description
Event Publish events to an external eventing system (AMQP, SQS, Kafka, and so on).
HTTP Call an API or HTTP endpoint.
Human Wait for an external signal.
Inline Execute lightweight JavaScript code inline.
No Op Do nothing.
JSON JQ Transform Clean or transform JSON data using jq.
Kafka Publish Publish messages to Kafka.
Wait Wait until a set time or duration has passed.

The following tasks are deprecated:

  • Lambda