The Testkube Open Source Agent

The Testkube Agent is 100% Open Source and can be deployed in standalone mode without being managed by the commercial Control Plane.

Once deployed, you can interact with the agent through the Testkube CLI or directly via the Agent API.

Agent Functionality

As described in the Installation Overview, the main difference between a commercial deployment of Testkube and the standalone Agent is the Testkube Control Plane, which adds a User Interface (the Testkube Dashboard) and an underlying management layer for multiple agents ("Environments"), Org/User Mgmt, Insights/Reporting, etc.

That being said, many of the core features of Testkube are available directly in the agent via the aforementioned CLI or API:

• Test Workflows : Manage Workflows and Templates, Run/Schedule executions (see below for limitations).
• Logs/Artifacts : Retrieve Workflow executions, logs, artifacts via CLI or API.
• Webhooks : Manage Webhooks that the Agent executes.
• Event Triggers : Manage Event Triggers that the Agent reacts to.
• Tests, TestSuites, Sources, Executors : Deprecated - but still available during a transition period - Read More.

See a complete feature-comparison table between OSS and Commercial below.

Workflow Limitations in Standalone Mode

The following Workflow features are not available when using the Standalone Agent, they require the Agent to be connected to the Testkube Control Plane, either on-prem or in the cloud.

• execute - see Test Suites
• parallel - see Parallelization
• matrix (and count, shards, maxCount) - see Sharding & Matrix Params
• services - see Services

Testkube Feature Comparison - Open Source vs Commercial

This table shows a more complete feature comparison between using just the Standalone Agent and the complete Testkube Orchestration Platform (Agent + Control Plane).

Features	Open Source	Cloud / On-Prem	Read More
TestWorkflows	✅ - ⚠️ see limitations above	✅	Docs
Test Logs/Artifacts	✅ - ⚠️ via CLI/API only	✅	Docs
Webhooks	✅	✅	Docs
Test Triggers	✅	✅	Docs
Test, Suites, Sources, Executors	✅	✅	Deprecated - Read More
Testkube CLI	✅	✅	Docs
REST API	✅ -⚠️ Unauthenticated	✅	Docs
Dashboard / Control Plane	❌	✅ (Hosted/On-Prem)	Docs
Multi-environment Mgmt	❌	✅	Docs
RBAC / User Mgmt	❌	✅	Docs
Reporting / Insights	❌	✅	Docs
Status Pages	❌	✅	Docs
Advanced Log/Results Debugging	❌	✅	Docs
Cached Test Results	❌	✅	Docs
Teams	❌	✅	Docs
Resource Groups	❌	✅	Docs
JUnit Reports	❌	✅	Docs
Audit Logs	❌	✅	Docs

Source Code and Licensing

The source-code for the agent is available in the Testkube GitHub repo and is dual-licensed under the MIT license and the Testkube Community License (TCL). Read more in our Licensing FAQ.