Welcome to the Outflow documentation!

Outflow is a framework that helps you build and run task workflows.

The API is as simple as possible while still giving the user full control over the definition and execution of the workflows.

Feature highlight :

• Simple but powerful API

• Support for parallelized and distributed execution

• Centralized command line interface for your pipeline commands

• Integrated database access, sqlalchemy models and alembic migrations

• Executions and exceptions logging for tracability

• Strict type and input/output checking for a robust pipeline

Contents:

• Overview
  • Introduction
• Tutorial
  • Part 1: Pipeline and plugins
  • Part 2: Tasks and commands
  • Part 3: Workflow and caching
  • Part 4: Parallelize your workflows
  • Part 5: Models and database
  • Part 6: Products
  • Part 7: Testing
• User guide
  • How to install Outflow
  • Tasks
  • Workflows
  • Commands
  • Database
  • Backend
  • Migrations
  • Outflow settings
  • Outflow configuration
  • Logging
  • Dashboard
  • Design Patterns
  • Example Workflows
  • Library
• Quick reference
  • Turn a function into a outflow task
  • Specifying the outputs of a task
• API