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Synopsis
Titanoboa makes complex workflows easy.
It is a fully distributed, highly scalable low-code workflow orchestration platform.
It runs on the JVM and supports Java, Kotlin & Clojure. (Python is also coming!)
You can run it anywhere: on-premises or in a cloud; on bare metal, VMs, Docker or K8s.
Titanoboa supports clustering and you can scale to hundreds of nodes easily.
Due to its generic, distributed and easily extensible design, you can use titanoboa for wide variety of purposes.
You can use it:
- for Big Data processing & data pipelines automation
- for orchestrating Core Microservices - as a replacement of Composite Microservices
- as a full-featured iPaaS / Integration Platform
- for Data Transformations / ETL
- for IT Automation
- as a Service Bus (ESB)
- for Batch Processing
See also titanoboa.io and our wiki. Predefined workflow steps are here.
Motivation
Titanoboa has been created with aim to create a workflow platform, that would support all the usual features of complex workflow engines and majority of enterprise integration patterns including:
- sequential and/or parallel step execution
- configurable step retry upon error and advanced customizable error handling
- advanced branching and conditional flow
- potentially cyclic workflow graphs
- splitter and aggregator (aka map/reduce) patterns which allow for processing of larger data sets
- fully transactional nature that assures that all steps are executed even in case of a failover
- full extensibility and ability to rapidly develop and deploy new workflows during runtime
In addition to this titanoboa also strives to honor immutability and functional programming principles. This enables it to be fully distributed and to be highly available with no central master server or database. This also helps lift performance limitations and thus titanoboa can be suitable for not only batch processing, but also for performance critical workflows.
Titanoboa's in-browser GUI can be used not only to monitor workflow jobs and server configuration, but provides an in-build IDE with workflow visualisation, advanced data and properties editor, autcomplete functionality and a repl (even for java!) so as users can rapidly test-develop new workflows directly in there.
Titanoboa is designed for both java & clojure developers and we are striving to make it usable even for java developers with no prior clojure knowledge.
To understand some of the concepts behind Titanoboa and how it can be used, feel free to watch this re:Clojure conference talk:
Predefined Steps
Though it is easy to rapidly develop new workflow steps directly from GUI (as shown in our demo), there is a number of ready-made steps and tasklets in this repository. Some of the steps included are:
- AWS (EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, SES)
- JDBC Client
- Http Client
- Smtp Client
- Sftp
- PDF Generation
and more.
If you created your own custom steps (in java or clojure) and you wish to reuse them in other workflows it is super easy to add your own custom ready-made steps into the GUI - see our wiki. You can even add custom icons!
Prerequisites
Java 8 or higher.
Docker
Docker image is available in titanoboa/titanoboa You can run it as follows:
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name titanoboa titanoboa/titanoboa:0.9.0
Installation
By the way, you don't need to install anything as you can just start a free hosted instance in your browser with one click! Just head to https://cloud.titanoboa.io
But if you want, install away! We suggest giving titanoboa's GUI a try as well since it is the best starting point! Download titanoboa's distribution including its GUI from https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1_gui.zip
curl --remote-name https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1_gui.zip
Note: The GUI is now also free for commercial use. Yay!
Note: If you are intending on running titanoboa server on java 8 JRE, download a distribution for JRE instead:
curl --remote-name https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1_jre_gui.zip
Unzip the file:
unzip titanoboa-0.9.1_gui.zip
then execute the start script:
./start
In your console you should see bunch of log messages and ultimately you will see
INFO [main] - Started @2338ms
which means the server started successfully. By default both the server and the GUI will start on port 3000 and you can open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
Congratulations! You have just started your titanoboa server!
You can go ahead and try to create a sample workflow or watch our demo.
Installing server without GUI
Download the latest release from https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1.zip .
curl --remote-name https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1.zip
Note: If you are intending on running titanoboa server on java 8 JRE, download a distribution for JRE instead:
curl --remote-name https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa/releases/download/0.9.1/titanoboa-0.9.1_jre.zip
And then follow the instructions above. By default the server will start on port 3000.
Building from the repository
The steps are described on our wiki.
Server Configuration
Server configuration and external dependencies file can be specified by system properties boa.server.config.path and boa.server.dependencies.path:
java -Dboa.server.config.path=boa_server_config_local.clj -Dboa.server.dependencies.path=ext-dependencies.clj -cp "./build/titanoboa.jar:./lib/*" titanoboa.server
See Server configuration wiki for more details.
Getting Started
Before you start, it might be a good idea to get familiar with titanoboa's concepts & workflow design principles.
Also feel free to watch Miro's talk from re:Clojure 2020 conference which gives a pretty good overview of what Titanoboa can do.
Develop & Test Workflows with titanoboa GUI
Titanoboa GUI is a good place to start devloping and testing workflows:
See an example in our wiki on how to create a sample workflow.
Developing custom workflow steps in Java
Titanoboa is also meant to be used by java developers who (apart from few concepts like EDN) do not need to be familiar with clojure. If you do not want to use clojure java interop to instantiate your objects and/or invoke your methods, you also have other options:
To create a custom workflow step, simply add a (maven) dependency on 
to your project.
and create a class that will implement io.titanoboa.java.IWorkloadFn interface:
public interface IWorkloadFn {
public Object invoke (Map properties);
}
If you then add your project (or the corresponding maven artifact) to titanoboa's external dependencies, you can use your class name in the workflow-fn field. The class will be automatically instantiated as a singleton bean (so it has to have a constructor with no argumet) and all subsequent references to it from any workflow-fn will invoke its invoke method:
:workload-fn io.titanoboa.java.SampleWorkloadImpl
or
:workload-fn 'io.titanoboa.java.SampleWorkloadImpl
or in GUI:
Java lambda support
To rapidly development and test new steps, you can also type a lambda function in the GUI and have titanoboa evaluate it during runtime. Read more about it here or see how it is done in our demo.
Develop & Test Workflows Locally in Your Clojure REPL
If you cannot use GUI and do not want to use REST API, you can as well just start REPL locally and play with titanoboa there. Either build titanoboa from repo or get it as leiningen or maven dependency:
[io.titanoboa/titanoboa "0.9.0"]
<dependency>
<groupId>io.titanoboa</groupId>
<artifactId>titanoboa</artifactId>
<version>0.9.0</version>
</dependency>
then fire off a repl and start:
Define a sample "Hello World!" workflow:
(ns local-system-test
(:require [titanoboa.system]
[titanoboa.repo]
[titanoboa.system.local]
[titanoboa.processor]))
(defn hello-fn [p]
{:message (str "Hello " (or (:name p) "human") "!")
:return-code (nil? (:name p))})
(defn greet-fn [p]
{:message (str (:message p) " Nice to meet you!")})
(defn fill-in-blanks [p]
{:message (str (:message p) " What is your name?")})
(def job-def {:first-step "step1"
:name "test"
:properties {:name nil}
:steps [{:id "step1"
:type :custom
:supertype :tasklet
:next [[false "step2"] [true "step3"]]
:workload-fn 'local-system-test/hello-fn
:properties {}}
{:id "step2" :type :custom :supertype :tasklet
:workload-fn 'local-system-test/greet-fn
:next []
:properties {}}
{:id "step3" :type :custom :supertype :tasklet
:workload-fn 'local-system-test/fill-in-blanks
:next []
:properties {}}]})
Start a simple local system with workers that will process the job:
(def new-jobs-chan (clojure.core.async/chan (clojure.core.async/dropping-buffer 1024)))
(def jobs-chan (clojure.core.async/chan (clojure.core.async/dropping-buffer 1024)))
(def finished-jobs-chan (clojure.core.async/chan (clojure.core.async/dropping-buffer 1024)))
(titanoboa.system/start-system! :core-local
{:core-local {:system-def #'titanoboa.system.local/local-core-system
:worker-def #'titanoboa.system.local/local-worker-system
:worker-count 2}}
{:new-jobs-chan new-jobs-chan
:jobs-chan jobs-chan
:finished-jobs-chan finished-jobs-chan
:node-id "localhost"
:eviction-interval (* 1000 60 5)
:eviction-age (* 1000 60 10)
:jobs-repo-path "repo-test/"
:job-folder-path "job-folders/"})
INFO [nREPL-worker-0] - Starting system :core-local ...
INFO [nREPL-worker-0] - Starting CacheEvictionComponent...
INFO [CacheEvictionComponent thread 0] - Starting CacheEvictionComponent thread [ CacheEvictionComponent thread 0 ].
INFO [nREPL-worker-0] - Starting action processor pool...
INFO [nREPL-worker-0] - Starting to watch repo folder for changes: dev-resources/repo-test/
INFO [nREPL-worker-0] - System :core-local started
=> true
(titanoboa.system/start-workers! :core-local
{:core-local {:system-def #'titanoboa.system.local/local-core-system
:worker-def #'titanoboa.system.local/local-worker-system
:worker-count 2}})
INFO [nREPL-worker-1] - Starting 2 workers for system :core-local :
INFO [nREPL-worker-1] - Starting a worker for system :core-local ...
INFO [nREPL-worker-1] - Starting job worker....
INFO [nREPL-worker-1] - Starting a worker for system :core-local ...
INFO [nREPL-worker-1] - Starting job worker....
=> nil
Start the job:
(titanoboa.processor/run-job! :core-local
{:jobdef job-def
:properties {:name "World"}}
true)
INFO [nREPL-worker-2] - Submitting new job [] into new jobs channel...
INFO [async-thread-macro-2] - Initializing a new job; First step will be: [ step1 ]
INFO [async-thread-macro-2] - Retrieved job [ d673c759-4fc6-4af1-bdad-d1dfd0f50f22 ] from jobs channel; Starting step [ step1 ]
INFO [async-thread-macro-2] - Next step is step2 ; Submitting into jobs channel for next step's processing...
INFO [async-thread-macro-1] - Initializing a next step; next step [ step2 ] was found among steps as step [ step2 ]
INFO [async-thread-macro-2] - Acking main message for step step1 with thread stack nil
INFO [async-thread-macro-1] - Retrieved job [ d673c759-4fc6-4af1-bdad-d1dfd0f50f22 ] from jobs channel; Starting step [ step2 ]
INFO [async-thread-macro-1] - Looping through finalize-job! fn with thread-stack: []
INFO [async-thread-macro-1] - Acking main message for step step2 with thread stack nil
INFO [async-thread-macro-1] - Job d673c759-4fc6-4af1-bdad-d1dfd0f50f22 has finshed.
=>
{:properties {:name "World", :message "Hello World! Nice to meet you!"},
:step-start #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.218-00:00",
:step-retries {},
:tracking-id nil,
:step-state :completed,
:start #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.203-00:00",
:history [{:step-state :completed,
:start #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.210-00:00",
:duration 6,
:result false,
:node-id "localhost",
:id "step1",
:next-step "step2",
:exception nil,
:end #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.216-00:00",
:retry-count nil,
:thread-stack nil,
:message "Step [step1] finshed with result [false]\n"}
{:id "step2",
:step-state :running,
:start #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.218-00:00",
:node-id "localhost",
:retry-count 0}
{:step-state :completed,
:start #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.218-00:00",
:duration 1,
:result nil,
:node-id "localhost",
:id "step2",
:next-step nil,
:exception nil,
:end #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.219-00:00",
:retry-count nil,
:thread-stack nil,
:message "Step [step2] finshed with result []\n"}],
:duration 16,
:state :finished,
:jobid "d673c759-4fc6-4af1-bdad-d1dfd0f50f22",
:create-folder? true,
:node-id "localhost",
:next-step nil,
:end #inst"2018-11-23T07:35:34.219-00:00"}
When you are done testing you may want to stop the system:
(titanoboa.system/stop-all-systems!)
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping all workers for system :core-local
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping job worker gracefully; sending a stop signal to the worker via service bus....
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping job worker gracefully; sending a stop signal to the worker via service bus....
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping system :core-local ...
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping action processor pool...
INFO [nREPL-worker-3] - Stopping CacheEvictionComponent thread [ CacheEvictionComponent thread 0 ]...
License
Copyright © Miroslav Kubicek
Titanoboa is dual-licensed under either AGPL license or a Commercial license.