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Best practice to bundle and deploy automatically a Workflow in an app

jegron — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:22:44 GMT

Hi,

I would like to bundle a custom workflow in our app. It should deploy it automatically.

How can I do that ?

Re: Best practice to bundle and deploy automatically a Workflow in an app

wolfgang_heider — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:46:03 GMT

did you already find https://github.com/Dynatrace/automation-workflow-creator that might give you a kick-start of how it could be done?

Please let me know, if that example is not sufficient for your use case.

Best, Wolfgang

Re: Best practice to bundle and deploy automatically a Workflow in an app

jegron — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:12:24 GMT

Hi @wolfgang_heider

Thank you. I've seen it but was wondering if I could deploy a workflow via a JSON like that.

For example, the Carbon Impact app automatically deploys a workflow when I deploy the app.

Re: Best practice to bundle and deploy automatically a Workflow in an app

michal_zawislak — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:34:49 GMT

Hi @jegron!

As of now, there's no out-of-the-box solution to ship a workflow with a custom app.
In the example of the Carbon Impact app you brought up, they have a custom logic to create and manage the workflow when it is deployed (and to be precise, when the app settings opens).

The easiest way to create a workflow programmatically (within a custom app) is by using an automation SDK client.

Please let me know if this answers your question or if I can help you further.