CNCF Serverless WG - Serverless Workflow Project Deep Dive

The presentation discusses how to write a workflow using serverless workflow and open API to orchestrate services.

• Serverless workflow allows for defining workflows in JSON or YAML without using a proprietary language.
• The workflow is defined using states, with each state defining the control flow logic for the workflow.
• Operation states are used to invoke microservices, with actions defining the invocations.
• Open API is used to define the functions to be invoked, with unique operation IDs used to specify the service to be used.
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The Serverless WG will provide a short update on the CloudEvents project and then give an in-depth update on the current state and planned future work of the Serverless Workflow project. In this session we will explain the benefits of using workflows in your application architectures. You will learn the ins and outs of the Serverless Workflow project and its ecosystem, its tight integration with the CloudEvents specification for event-orchestration, as well as its design and deployment strategies on cloud/container platforms. In addition we will show examples and explain some of the more advanced workflow language concepts such as error handling, retries, compensation, event-correlation, and long-running workflows.