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Quick Start
Prerequisites
Before you start following this guide, make sure you have completed these three prerequisites.
Install and run Mistral
Go through the installation manual: Mistral Installation Guide </guides/installation_guide>
Install Mistral client
To install mistralclient, please refer to Mistral Client / CLI Guide </guides/mistralclient_guide>
Export Keystone credentials
To use the OpenStack command line tools you should specify
environment variables with the configuration details for your OpenStack
installation. The following example assumes that the Identity service is
at 127.0.0.1:5000
, with a user admin
in the
admin
tenant whose password is password
:
$ export OS_AUTH_URL=http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2.0/
$ export OS_TENANT_NAME=admin
$ export OS_USERNAME=admin
$ export OS_PASSWORD=password
Write a workflow
For example, we have the following workflow.
---
version: "2.0"
my_workflow:
type: direct
input:
- names
tasks:
task1:
with-items: name in <% $.names %>
action: std.echo output=<% $.name %>
on-success: task2
task2:
action: std.echo output="Done"
This simple workflow iterates through a list of names in
task1
(using with-items),
stores them as a task result (using the std.echo action) and then stores the word
"Done" as a result of the second task (task2).
To learn more about the Mistral Workflows and what you can do, read
the Mistral DSL specification </dsl/dsl_v2>
Upload the workflow
Use the Mistral CLI to create the workflow:
$ mistral workflow-create <workflow.yaml>
The output should look similar to this:
+------------------------------------+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+
|ID | Name | Tags | Input | Created at | Updated at |
+------------------------------------+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+
|9b719d62-2ced-47d3-b500-73261bb0b2ad| my_workflow | <none> | names | 2015-08-13 08:44:49 | None |
+------------------------------------+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+
Run the workflow and check the result
Use the Mistral CLI to start the new workflow, passing in a list of names as JSON:
$ mistral execution-create my_workflow '{"names": ["John", "Mistral", "Ivan", "Crystal"]}'
Make sure the output is like the following:
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040 |
| Workflow ID | 9b719d62-2ced-47d3-b500-73261bb0b2ad |
| Workflow name | my_workflow |
| Description | |
| Task Execution ID | <none> |
| State | RUNNING |
| State info | None |
| Created at | 2017-03-06 11:24:10 |
| Updated at | 2017-03-06 11:24:10 |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
After a moment, check the status of the workflow execution (replace the example execution id with the ID output above):
$ mistral execution-get 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
| ID | 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040 |
| Workflow ID | 9b719d62-2ced-47d3-b500-73261bb0b2ad |
| Workflow name | my_workflow |
| Description | |
| Task Execution ID | <none> |
| State | SUCCESS |
| State info | None |
| Created at | 2017-03-06 11:24:10 |
| Updated at | 2017-03-06 11:24:20 |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------+
The status of each task also can be checked:
$ mistral task-list 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040
+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| ID | Name | Workflow name | Execution ID | State | State info | Created at | Updated at |
+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe | task1 | my_workflow | 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040 | SUCCESS | None | 2017-03-06 11:24:11 | 2017-03-06 11:24:17 |
| d565c5a0-f46f-4ebe-8655-9eb6796307a3 | task2 | my_workflow | 49213eb5-196c-421f-b436-775849b55040 | SUCCESS | None | 2017-03-06 11:24:17 | 2017-03-06 11:24:18 |
+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
Check the result of task 'task1':
$ mistral task-get-result f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe
[
"John",
"Mistral",
"Ivan",
"Crystal"
]
If needed, we can go deeper and look at a list of the results of the action_executions of a single task:
$ mistral action-execution-list f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe
+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+--------------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| ID | Name | Workflow name | Task name | Task ID | State | Accepted | Created at | Updated at |
+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+--------------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 4e0a60be-04df-42d7-aa59-5107e599d079 | std.echo | my_workflow | task1 | f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe | SUCCESS | True | 2017-03-06 11:24:12 | 2017-03-06 11:24:16 |
| 5bd95da4-9b29-4a79-bcb1-298abd659bd6 | std.echo | my_workflow | task1 | f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe | SUCCESS | True | 2017-03-06 11:24:12 | 2017-03-06 11:24:16 |
| 6ae6c19e-b51b-4910-9e0e-96c788093715 | std.echo | my_workflow | task1 | f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe | SUCCESS | True | 2017-03-06 11:24:12 | 2017-03-06 11:24:16 |
| bed5a6a2-c1d8-460f-a2a5-b36f72f85e19 | std.echo | my_workflow | task1 | f639e7a9-9609-468e-aa08-7650e1472efe | SUCCESS | True | 2017-03-06 11:24:12 | 2017-03-06 11:24:17 |
+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+--------------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+
Check the result of the first action_execution:
$ mistral action-execution-get-output 4e0a60be-04df-42d7-aa59-5107e599d079
{
"result": "John"
}
Congratulations! Now you are ready to use OpenStack Workflow Service!