zigflow

Zigflow: Declarative workflows for Temporal

Zigflow provides a simple and declarative way to define and manage Temporal workflows using a DSL built upon the CNCF Serverless Workflow specification. It enables low-code and no-code workflow creation that's easy to visualise, share, and maintain, without sacrificing the power and reliability of Temporal.

🛟 Help

• Homepage
• Helm chart
• Documentation
• Slack Community

✨ Features

• ✅ CNCF Standard – fully aligned with Serverless Workflow v1.0+
• ✅ Low-code & Visual-ready – ideal for UI workflow builders and orchestration tools
• ✅ Powered by Temporal – battle-tested reliability, retries, and state management
• ✅ Kubernetes-native – includes a Helm chart for easy deployment
• ✅ Open & Extensible – customize, extend, and contribute easily

⚡️ ZigFlow?

Ziggy is a tardigrade and Temporal's official mascot. They're a microscopic animal that is basically indestructible.

Sound familiar?

🧩 Example

Define a workflow declaratively in YAML:

document:
  dsl: 1.0.0
  namespace: zigflow # Mapped to the task queue
  name: simple-workflow # Workflow type
  version: 1.0.0
do:
  - set:
      output:
        as:
          data: ${ . }
      set:
        message: Hello from Ziggy

Run it through Zigflow:

zigflow -f ./path/to/workflow.yaml

This builds your Temporal workflow and runs the workers — no additional Go boilerplate required.

You can now run it with any Temporal SDK, in the Temporal UI or from the Temporal CLI.

• Task Queue: zigflow
• Workflow Type: simple-workflow

📈 Telemetry

Telemetry helps us understand if people are actually using Zigflow. Stars are great, but a tiny bit of usage data gives us a clearer picture of what’s happening out there.

Zigflow creates a UUID (stored in ~/.config/zigflow) and sends just two things:

• that anonymous ID
• the Zigflow version you’re running

That's it.

Telemetry is optional and easy to turn off. You can disable it by setting the environment variable:

DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true

or by running Zigflow with:

--disable-telemetry

🧭 Related Projects

• Temporal
• CNCF Serverless Workflow
• Helm Chart Repository

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

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⭐️ Contributors

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🪪 License

Distributed under the Apache-2.0 license

© 2025 Zigflow authors