thhermansen / zeebe

Prerequisite

• brew cask install zeebe-modeler

Example app

kubectl port-forward svc/zeebe-cluster-zeebe-gateway 26500:26500 -n zeebe-thorbjorn # Run in a terminal of it's own

cd app

bin/worker # Run in a terminal of it's own
bin/console

Order

import {Duration} from 'zeebe-node'
import OrderWorkflow from '@workflows/orderPlaced'

// Will be a success :-)
let orderId = 1
OrderWorkflow.orderPlaced({orderId, country: 'Norway'})
OrderWorkflow.client.publishMessage({ name: 'paymentReceived', correlationKey: orderId.toString(), timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {receivedAmount: 100} })

// Will fail, payment issue
orderId = 2
OrderWorkflow.orderPlaced({orderId, country: 'Norway'})

// Change order id to 3, just to make it pass
OrderWorkflow.client.publishMessage({ name: 'paymentReceived', correlationKey: '3', timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {receivedAmount: 100} })

// Show business error, sending is too large
orderId = 5
OrderWorkflow.orderPlaced({orderId, country: 'sweden'})
OrderWorkflow.client.publishMessage({ name: 'paymentReceived', correlationKey: orderId.toString(), timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {receivedAmount: 100} })

OCR registration

import {Duration} from 'zeebe-node'
import NetsOcrRegistration from '@workflows/netsOcrRegistration'

let accountNumber = 1
NetsOcrRegistration.schedule(accountNumber)

NetsOcrRegistration.client.publishMessage({name: 'netsOcrAgreementPollStatusNow', correlationKey: accountNumber.toString(), timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {} })

OCR Poll

import {Duration} from 'zeebe-node'
import NetsOcrPollFiles from '@workflows/netsOcrPollFiles'

NetsOcrPollFiles.client.publishMessage({name: 'netsOcrPollFilesStart', correlationKey: 'pollJobSameKeyEnsuresSingleInstance', timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {numberOfFiles: 0} })

NetsOcrPollFiles.client.publishMessage({name: 'netsOcrPollFilesStart', correlationKey: 'pollJobSameKeyEnsuresSingleInstance', timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {numberOfFiles: 2} })

// File number 5, 6 and 7 will cause issue in parent process
NetsOcrPollFiles.client.publishMessage({name: 'netsOcrPollFilesStart', correlationKey: 'pollJobSameKeyEnsuresSingleInstance', timeToLive: Duration.seconds.of(60), variables: {numberOfFiles: 7} })

Resources

• What is Zeebe?
• Getting started
• Typescript client
  • Github

TODO

• HELM charts has some tests running, which .. I'm not sure how is suppose to work, but I do want to not include them in the deploy.
  • Seems like someone already is working on this here: pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes#666
• Make a test app to play with
• Test more advanced use cases like subprocesses, errro handling etc.

Questions

• How to show history to users?
  • https://docs.zeebe.io/basics/exporters.html
  • https://github.com/zeebe-io/zeebe/tree/master/exporters/elasticsearch-exporter
• How does it really work in production?
  • https://zeebe.io/cloud/