# Orchest

```{title} Orchest Docs

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.. meta::
   :description: Orchest is a tool for building data pipelines, made to be easy to use. This is the Orchest documentation index.
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**Orchest is a tool for building data pipelines, made to be easy to use.**

```{tip}
👉 Get started with the {ref}`quickstart <quickstart>`!
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```{figure} img/pipeline-editor.png
:align: center
:alt: Visualizing a data pipeline in Orchest.
:width: 800

💡 Watch the [video](https://vimeo.com/764866337) to learn more.
```

- Visually construct pipelines through Orchest user-friendly UI
- Code in Notebooks and scripts ({ref}`quickstart <quickstart>`)
- Run any subset of a pipeline directly or schedule it to run periodically ({ref}`jobs <jobs>`)
- Easily define your dependencies to run on any machine ({ref}`environments <environments>`)
- Spin up services whose lifetime spans across the entire pipeline run ({ref}`services <services>`)
- Version your projects using git ({ref}`projects <projects>`)

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getting_started/index
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fundamentals/index
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reference/index
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development/index
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