Show HN: Windows Automation Tool – System Center Orchestrator Replacement

Category: infrastructure

Tags: windows, orchestration, automation, powershell, winrm, workflow, sysadmin, ai-agents

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

NodePilot is an agentless Windows workflow orchestration platform positioned as a modern, open-source alternative to Microsoft System Center Orchestrator. It offers a visual drag-and-drop designer, a true parallel execution engine with WinRM/PowerShell remote execution, AI-assisted authoring, real-time SignalR UI updates, and SCOrch runbook import — all under Apache-2.0. Despite low GitHub traction today, it fills a genuine gap left by SCOrch's dated authoring experience, with an unusually mature feature set (MCP server, Grafana dashboards, RBAC, versioning, debugger) for a young project.

Target audience: sysadmins and DevOps engineers managing Windows estates, particularly organizations migrating from or supplementing Microsoft System Center Orchestrator

Repository: https://github.com/Sev7eNup/NodePilot · C# · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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