robert-ovens / super-duper-chainsaw

super-duper-chainsaw

Temporal local development setup

Follow instructions at set up a local development environment for Temporal and Go.

Running a local dev server

temporal server start-dev 

The admin ui will be available at http://localhost:8233

Invoking a workflow

This is a fictional worklow that

• waits for an approval
• provisions an instance and gets the instance id
• registers the instance in the CMDB using the instance id from the provisioning activity

Starting an instance

temporal workflow start \
--task-queue cloud-operations-queue \
--type ProvisionInstanceWorkflow \
--namespace default \
--workflow-id $(uuidgen)

Approving the request

using the workflow-id from the previous step

temporal workflow signal \
--workflow-id id-from-the-previous-step
--name "approve-request"

Query the workflow

using the workflow-id from the previous step

temporal workflow query \
--workflow-id id-from-the-previous-step
--type "current_state"