From Complexity to Simplicity with TaskHarbor: Trendyol's Path to a Unified Orchestration Platform

At Trendyol, Turkey’s leading e-commerce company, Apache Airflow powers our task orchestration, handling DAGs with 500+ tasks, complex interdependencies, and diverse environments. Managing on-prem Airflow instances posed challenges in scalability, maintenance, and deployment. To address these, we built TaskHarbor, a fully managed orchestration platform with a hybrid architecture—combining Airflow on GKE with on-prem resources for optimal performance and efficiency. This talk covers how we: Enabled seamless DAG synchronization across environments using GCS Fuse. Optimized workload distribution via GCP’s HTTPS & TCP Load Balancers. Automated infrastructure provisioning (GKE, CloudSQL, Kubernetes) using Terraform. Simplified Airflow deployments by replacing Helm YAML files with a custom templating tool, reducing configurations to 10-15 lines. Built a fully automated deployment pipeline, ensuring zero developer intervention. We enhanced efficiency, reliability, and automation in hybrid orchestration by embracing a scalable, maintainable, and cloud-native strategy. Attendees will obtain practical insights into architecting Airflow at scale and optimizing deployments.