In the cloud-native workflow automation world, there are many great open-source projects such as Argo, Airflow, and Brigade. These tools require technical expertise to be used by business users, or they are aligned with a specific use case such as CI/CD. Boomerang Flow is an alternative tool that is usable by a business user but also provides an extensible framework developers can use for new use cases. It aims to replace Robotic Process Automation flows, which don’t necessarily need to be full-blown bots. And it doesn’t try to tackle use cases such as screen-scraping legacy green text applications. Instead, it tries to solve the problem where enterprises are using bots to perform tasks such as receiving a service now ticket and automatically moving it to a special status or workflow queue. These types of scenarios can be automated using Boomerang Flow. And the cost of running these workflows in Kubernetes is fractions of the cost of running an RPA bot for licensing. Presenters: Tyson W Lawrie, head of engineering - IBM, Marcus D Roy, Senior Lead Software engineer - IBM, and Benjamin Ruby, Analytics Consultant - IBM Recording link: https://youtu.be/-lOninwMoz4

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Who we are
Tyson Lawrie
Maintainer
IBM
github.com/tlawrie
Marcus Roy
Maintainer
IBM
github.com/marcusdroy
Benjamin Ruby
Maintainer
IBM
github.com/BenjaminRuby

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What we’ll
discuss
today...
▸ What is Boomerang Flow
▸ Main Features
▸ Benefits
▸ Architecture
▸ Timeline
▸ The Experience
▸ Demo

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Boomerang Flow is __ a cloud native workflow orchestration tool
a new modern approach to automation
scalable and extensible
focused on the end user experience
lower cost automation with increased productivity

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Event driven
cloud-native
workflow
automation
▸ User Experience Focus
▸ Triggers
▸ Eventing
▸ Parameters
▸ Task Management
▸ User and Team Management
▸ Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) based
workflows
▸ Decisioning and branching
▸ … and many more powerful features

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The Benefits
Consistency
Reduce Cost
Simplicity
and Experience
Agility and
Transformation
Increased
Productivity
Compliance
and Risk

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How to use
Boomerang Flow
Operations
Implement runbook
automation and issue
remediation
Incident
Management
Resolve issues with
automatic routing and
acknowledgement
Report Generation
Integrate and collate data
from multiple sources
into a cohesive scorecard
Syncing
Send data between
systems as events
happen to ensure tools
and access stay in sync
Git Bot
Manage issue and PR
responses and
categorizations
Employee
Onboarding
Send, track, and
automatically action
access requests for new
employees

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Use case:
A benefits use
case for a global
industrial
packaging
company
Process spreadsheets to produce rule based
metrics into a value report scorecard

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The Architecture

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Open Source
▸ NATS
▸ CloudEvents
▸ Tekton
▸ oAuthProxy
▸ Loki
▸ Jaeger
▸ Fabric8
▸ Carbon
▸ Project Storm Diagrams
▸ … and many more projects

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Timeline
Q4 2018
Birth of Boomerang Flow
as internal IBM
experimental project.
Q2 2021
Adopted Tekton TaskRuns
Adopted Fabric8 SDK
Submitted for CNCF Sandbox
Advanced features
Team Tasks
System Workflows
Advanced YAML editor
Tekton Parameters
Extended project internally to CICD
Q1 2021
2020
Open sourced
Architecture evolution
Adopted Cloud Events, NATS,
and Loki
User requested features
Proof of Concept as RPA
replacement
Vision to Implementation
2019

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A no/low-code experience for non-
technical users
Modernization of BPM / RPA
Translate technical complexities into
friendly easy to navigate interface
Aims:
Simplification
Visualization
Abstract technical complexity
Principles:
The Experience

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Tyson Lawrie
Maintainer
github.com/tlawrie
Marcus Roy
Maintainer
github.com/marcusdroy
Benjamin Ruby
Maintainer
github.com/BenjaminRuby