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Define you orchestration logic that is triggered via events and invokes services sync or async. Write logic that includes human decisions, set timeouts and retries, handle errors, and much more...
using the most powerful open-source, vendor-neutral workflow DSL. Our DSL provides integrations with widely used standards for events and services such as CloudEvents, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, and more.
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Define you orchestration logic that is triggered via events and invokes services sync or async. Write logic that includes human decisions, set timeouts and retries, handle errors, and much more...
Java, Go, TypeScript, .NET, ...
Start developing your workflow orchestrations with help of our project SDKs. Get help creating out-of-box user experience using our open-source editor/web tooling and visualization support
Serverless, Cloud-Native, Distributed runtimes
Execute and scale your workflow-based orchestrations to build high-end applications.
{
"states": [
{
"name": "Monitor Vitals",
"type": "event",
"onEvents": [
{
"eventRefs": [
"High Body Temp Event",
"High Blood Pressure Event"
],
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": "Invoke Dispatch Nurse Function"
}
]
},
{
"eventRefs": [
"High Respiration Rate Event"
],
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": "Invoke Dispatch Pulmonologist Function"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
{
"states": [
{
"name": "Send Email",
"type": "operation",
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": {
"invoke": "async",
"refName": "Invoke Send Email Function",
"arguments": {
"customer": "${ .customer }"
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
{
"states": [
{
"name": "ProvisionOrder",
"type": "operation",
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": {
"refName": "provisionOrderFunction"
}
}
],
"onErrors": [
{
"errorRef": "Missing order id",
"transition": "MissingId"
},
{
"errorRef": "Missing order item",
"transition": "MissingItem"
},
{
"errorRef": "Missing order quantity",
"transition": "MissingQuantity"
}
]
}
]
{
"states": [
{
"name": "Item Purchase",
"type": "event",
"onEvents": [
{
"eventRefs": [
"New Purchase Event"
],
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": "Invoke Debit Customer Function"
}
]
}
],
"compensatedBy": "Cancel Purchase",
"onErrors": [
{
"errorRef": "Debit Error",
"end": {
"compensate": true
}
}
]
},
{
"name": "Cancel Purchase",
"type": "operation",
"usedForCompensation": true,
"actions": [
{
"functionRef": "Invoke Credit Customer Function"
}
]
}
]
}
{
"id": "periodicInboxCheck",
"name": "Periodic Check Inbox Workflow",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Periodically Check Inbox",
"start": {
"stateName": "CheckInbox",
"schedule": {
"cron": "0 0/15 * * * ?"
}
},
"states": [...]
}
Model human decisions, define timeouts and retries, define parallel exec logic and looping, make data and event-based decisions, define callbacks, write powerful expressions, set secrets and constants and much more.
Read the specification document for the list of all DSL features.
Open-source workflow runtimes are key for executing your production scale workflows. Open an issue in our GitHub repo to add your project to below list of runtimes that use our specification.
Synapse is a vendor-neutral, free, open-source, and community-driven Workflow Management System (WFMS) implementing the Serverless Workflow specification. You can deploy Synapse on Docker, Kubernetes, or natively on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Apache EventMesh Workflow is a cloud vendor-independent, cloud-native-oriented Serverless Workflow Runtime based on Serverless Workflow specification, and provides durability, reliability, scalability, and observability capabilities.
Kogito Serverless Workflow is a tool for building cloud-native workflow applications. You can use Kogito to do the services and events orchestration and choreography. With Kogito, you can integrate with services and events in your architecture using CloudEvents, synchronous and asynchronous REST invocations, and many other industry-standard components.
Become part of the highly innovative group of workflow enthusiasts and help us grow our project under the CNCF umbrella.
And be featured on our website, workshops, talks, meetups and more!
Our Sponsors play a big part of our project. Alongside our community, their donations foster our projects ability to grow and maintain being completely vendor neutral.
We would like to thank the following companies who have made donations to our project:
Neuroglia is a consultancy and solution design company for the digital transformation of companies and their services..
Event | Description | Date | |
---|---|---|---|
Serverless Workflow Workshop #5 | Home Automation Demo with Synapse | September 2022 | |
Serverless Workflow Workshop #4 | Kogito Serverless Loan Broker Demo | September 2022 | |
Serverless Workflow Workshop #3 | SimpleIdServer FaasNet Intro and Demo | April 2022 | |
Serverless Workflow Workshop #2 | Intro to Synapse | March 2022 | |
Serverless Workflow Workshop #1 | Project Intro, Overview, Roadmap and Q/A | January 2022 | |
Serverless Workflow and AsyncAPI - AsyncAPI Conf | Project Intro and AsyncAPI Demo | November 2021 | |
KubeCon NA Project Office Hours | Project Intro and Demo | October 2021 |
These brands are already using Serverless Workflow. Is your company using Serverless Workflow and wants to be included in this list? Let us know here!
Huawei FunctionGraph hosts event-driven functions in a serverless context while ensuring high availability, high scalability, and zero maintenance.
Neuroglia is a consultancy and solution design company for the digital transformation of companies and their services..
Red Hat sponsors the development of Kogito Serverless Workflow, which is a tool for building cloud-native workflow applications. You can use Kogito to do the services and events orchestration and choreography. With Kogito, you can integrate with services and events in your architecture using CloudEvents, synchronous and asynchronous REST invocations, and many other industry-standard components.
Temporal is the open source microservice orchestration platform for writing durable workflows as code.
Tantl is making it easy for developers to build internal workflows, such as allowing customer support reps to quickly process refunds.
OpenEnterprise Automatiko helps you build better services and functions based on workflows expressed with well known standards.
A new generation serverless event middleware for building distributed event-driven applications.
FaasNet makes it easy to deploy functions and API to Kubernetes without repetitive, boiler-plate coding.
Serverless Workflow is the core technology behind every KYC/KYB solution allowing them to customize it for their clients seamlessly.