Workflow Templates

OpenOps provides a pre-made library of FinOps best-practice workflows, based on research and input from FinOps leaders across industries and verticals.

The library, referred to as the Templates catalog, contains dozens of templates that provide ready-to-use recipes for anomaly management, workload and rate optimization across the following cloud services:

• Amazon EC2, CloudWatch, EBS, CloudFront, RDS, and S3
• Azure VM

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Exploring templates

To view the catalog, click Explore templates in the top-right menu bar in the Overview or Workflows section:

The catalog will open in an overlay:

By default, the catalog contains six templates. To view more, click Explore more and sign up for a free OpenOps Cloud account. As a result, the Templates catalog in your OpenOps installation will be extended to show all available templates:

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Creating workflows based on templates

When you click a template in the catalog, OpenOps displays its full description, a preview diagram visualizing the workflow steps defined in the template, and the integrations that the template uses:

If you want to use the workflow defined in the template, click Use template in the top-right corner.

OpenOps will then ask you to specify existing or create new connections to cloud services that are required for the selected template to work:

You can set up the required connections now or later. When you click Create workflow, your workflow will open in the workflow editor, where you can customize it to your liking.