  The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray
observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to
100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more
than 100 telescopes, producing large amounts of data. Apart from the storage
system, there are also requirements on the software framework to allow
efficient data processing, i.e. robustness, execution speed and coding
efficiency. This contribution will present a plain and simple pipeline
framework design prototype for CTA that builds upon well-known tools, allowing
the users to focus on physics problems without learning complicated software
paradigms.
