iWF project - main & server repo

iWF will make you a 10x developer!

iWF is an API orchestration platform for building resilient, fault-tolerant, scalable long-running applications. It offers an orchestration coding framework with abstractions for durable timers, async/background execution with backoff retry, KV storage, RPC, and message queues. You will build long-running reliable processes faster than ever.

What is iWF

Use case study/examples

• SAGA pattern
  • Java samples, Golang samples, Python samples
• User sign-up/registry in Python/Java
• Abstracted microservice orchestration in Java/Golang
• Employer & JobSeeker engagement in Java or Golang
• Subscription Workflow in Java or Golang

Basic concepts

• Basic concepts overview
• WorkflowState
• RPC
• Persistence

Advanced concepts

• WorkflowOptions
• WorkflowStateOptions
• Persistence Caching

How to use

As a coding framework, iWF provides three SDKs to use with:

• iWF Java SDK and samples
• iWF Golang SDK and samples
• iWF Python SDK and samples

The iWF SDKs required to run with the server:

Using all-in-one docker image

Run the docker command to start the container for:

• IWF service: http://localhost:8801/
• Temporal WebUI: http://localhost:8233/
• Temporal service: localhost:7233

  docker run -p 8801:8801 -p 7233:7233 -p 8233:8233 -e AUTO_FIX_WORKER_URL=host.docker.internal --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway -it iworkflowio/iwf-server-lite:latest

To update the server version, use docker pull iworkflowio/iwf-server-lite:latest to get the latest image. Or change latest to specify a version tag.

Using docker image & docker-compose

This is the simpler(preferred) option to run the server locally for development.

Checkout this repo, go to the docker-compose folder and run it:

cd docker-compose && docker-compose up

This by default will run Temporal server with it, again:

• IWF service: http://localhost:8801/
• Temporal WebUI: http://localhost:8233/
• Temporal service: localhost:7233

To update the server version, use docker pull iworkflowio/iwf-server:latest to get the latest image. Or update the docker-compose file to specify a version tag.

How to build & run locally

• Run make bins to build the binary iwf-server
• Make sure you have registered the system search attributes required by iWF server:
  • Keyword: IwfWorkflowType
  • Int: IwfGlobalWorkflowVersion
  • Keyword: IwfExecutingStateIds
  • See Contribution for more detailed commands.
  • For Cadence without advancedVisibility enabled, set disableSystemSearchAttributes to true and executingStateIdMode to DISABLED
• Then run ./iwf-server start to run the service . This defaults to serve workflows APIs with Temporal interpreter implementation. It requires to have local Temporal setup. See Run with local Temporal.
• Alternatively, run ./iwf-server --config config/development_cadence.yaml start to run with local Cadence. See below instructions for setting up local Cadence.

Support

Join our Slack channel!

You can also post in our Discussion, or raise an issue.

Contributing

Check out our CONTRIBUTING page.

Posts & Articles & Reference

• Why I created Indeed Workflow Engine
• Durable Timers in Indeed Workflow Engine
• Cadence community spotlights
  • #1
  • #2
  • #3
• iWF is an abstracted Temporal framework. Same for Cadence.
• How ContinueAsNew is built in iWF