Development

Serverless-Workflows

A selected set of serverless workflows.

Here is the layout of directories per workflow. Each folder contains at least:

• application.properties the configuration item specific for the workflow app itself.
• ${workflow}.sw.yaml the serverless workflow definitions with respect to the best practices.
• specs/ optional folder with OpenAPI specs if the flow needs them.

All .svg can be ignored, there’s no real functional use for them in deployment and all of them are created by VSCode extension.

Every workflow has a matching container image pushed to quay.io by a github workflows in the form of quay.io/orchestrator/serverless-workflow-${workflow}.

Current image statuses:

• https://quay.io/repository/orchestrator/serverless-workflow-mta
• https://quay.io/repository/orchestrator/serverless-workflow-m2k
• https://quay.io/repository/orchestrator/serverless-workflow-greeting
• https://quay.io/repository/orchestrator/serverless-workflow-escalation

After image publishing, GitHub action will generate kubernetes manifests and push a PR to the workflows helm chart repo under a directory matching the workflow name. This repo is used to deploy the workflows to an environment with Sonataflow operator running.

How to introduce a new workflow

Follow these steps to successfully add a new workflow:

1. Create a folder under the root with the name of the flow, e.x /onboarding
2. Copy application.properties, onboarding.sw.yaml into that folder
3. Create a GitHub workflow file .github/workflows/${workflow}.yaml that will call main workflow (see greeting.yaml)
4. Create a pull request but don’t merge yet.
5. Send a pull request to serverless-workflows-config repository to add a sub-chart under the path charts/workflows/charts/onboarding. You can copy the greeting sub-chart directory and files.
6. Create a PR to serverless-workflows-config repository and make sure its merge.
7. Now the PR from 4 can be merged and an automatic PR will be created with the generated manifests. Review and merge.

See Continuous Integration with make for implementation details of the CI pipeline.

Builder image

There are two builder images under ./pipeline folder:

• workflow-builder-dev.Dockerfile - references nightly build image from docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-sonataflow-builder:main that doesn’t required any authorization
• workflow-builder.Dockerfile - references OpenShift Serverless Logic builder image from registry.redhat.io which requires authorization.
  • To use this dockerfile locally, you must be logged to registry.redhat.io. To get access to that registry, follow:
    1. Get tokens here. Once logged in to podman, you should be able to pull the image.
    2. Verify pulling the image here

Note on CI: For every PR merged in the workflow directory, a GitHub Action runs an image build to generate manifests, and a new PR is automatically generated in the serverless-workflows-config repository. The credentials used by the build process are defined as organization level secret, and the content is from a token on the helm repo with an expiry period of 60 days. Currently only the repo owner (rgolangh) can recreate the token. This should be revised.