Quick Start

Install and Run Mistral

• Go through the installation manual: Mistral Installation Guide

Install Mistral Client

• For installing mistralclient, please refer to Mistral Client / CLI 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 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 is a simple workflow iterates through the given list of names in its first task (using “with-items”) and stores them as a task result (using echo action) and then stores word “Done” as a result of the second task.

Create Workflow Object

Use Mistral CLI to create the workflow:

mistral workflow-create <workflow.yaml>

Make sure that output is like the following:

+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+
| Name        | Tags   | Input   | Created at          | Updated at |
+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+
| my_workflow | <none> | names   | 2015-08-13 08:44:49 | None       |
+-------------+--------+---------+---------------------+------------+

Run Workflow and Check the Result

Use Mistral CLI to run just created workflow. Pass variable names as workflow_input:

mistral execution-create my_workflow '{"names": ["John", "Mistral", "Ivan", "Crystal"]}'

Make sure output is like the following:

+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| ID          | 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784 |
| Workflow    | my_workflow                          |
| Description |                                      |
| State       | RUNNING                              |
| State info  | None                                 |
| Created at  | 2015-08-28 09:05:00.065917           |
| Updated at  | 2015-08-28 09:05:00.844990           |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+

After a while, check the status of the workflow execution (put execution id instead of example):

mistral execution-get 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784

+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field       | Value                                |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+
| ID          | 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784 |
| Workflow    | my_workflow                          |
| Description |                                      |
| State       | SUCCESS                              |
| State info  | None                                 |
| Created at  | 2015-08-28 09:05:00                  |
| Updated at  | 2015-08-28 09:05:03                  |
+-------------+--------------------------------------+

Statuses of each task also can be checked:

mistral task-list 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784

+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+
| ID                                   | Name  | Workflow name | Execution ID                         | State   |
+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+
| 91874635-dcd4-4718-a864-ac90408c1085 | task1 | my_workflow   | 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784 | SUCCESS |
| 3bf82863-28cb-4148-bfb8-1a6c3c115022 | task2 | my_workflow   | 056c2ed1-695f-4ccd-92af-e31bc6153784 | SUCCESS |
+--------------------------------------+-------+---------------+--------------------------------------+---------+

Checking the result of task ‘task1’:

mistral task-get-result 91874635-dcd4-4718-a864-ac90408c1085

[
    "John",
    "Mistral",
    "Ivan",
    "Crystal"
]

If needed, we can go deeper and look at list of results of action_executions of single task:

mistral action-execution-list 91874635-dcd4-4718-a864-ac90408c1085

+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+---------+------------+-------------+
| ID                                   | Name     | Workflow name | Task name | State   | State info | Is accepted |
+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+---------+------------+-------------+
| 20c2b65d-b899-437f-8e1b-50fe477fbf4b | std.echo | my_wirkflow   | task1     | SUCCESS | None       | True        |
| 6773c887-6eff-46e6-bed9-d6b67d77813b | std.echo | my_wirkflow   | task1     | SUCCESS | None       | True        |
| 753a9e39-d93e-4751-a3c1-569d1b4eac64 | std.echo | my_wirkflow   | task1     | SUCCESS | None       | True        |
| 9872ddbc-61c5-4511-aa7e-dc4016607822 | std.echo | my_wirkflow   | task1     | SUCCESS | None       | True        |
+--------------------------------------+----------+---------------+-----------+---------+------------+-------------+

Checking the result of first action_execution:

mistral action-execution-get-output 20c2b65d-b899-437f-8e1b-50fe477fbf4b

{
    "result": "John"
}

Congratulations! Now you are ready to use OpenStack Workflow Service!