Workflow

Visualize and Inspect Workflows Executions

When using a service like Google Cloud Workflows, in particular as your workflows get…

Here are some general tips and tricks that we found useful as we used Workflows:

Avoid hard-coding URLs

Since Workflows is all about calling APIs and service URLs, it’s important to have some clean way to handle those URLs. You can…

Workflows allows you to call APIs, whether from or hosted on Google Cloud, or any external API in the wild. A few days ago, for example, we saw an example on how to use…

Following up the article on writing and reading JSON files in cloud storage buckets, we saw that we could access the data of the JSON file, and use it in our workflow. Let’s have a look at a concrete use of this.

For notification purposes, especially in an asynchronous way, email is a great solution. I wanted to add an email notification step in Google Cloud Workflows . Since GCP doesn’t have an email service, I looked at the various email…

So far, in this series on Cloud Workflows , we’ve only used the Google Cloud Console UI to manage our workflow definitions, and their executions. But it’s also possible to deploy new…