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Workflows in orbs

Nathan Dintenfass

I want to be able to define an entire workflow in an orb, using the jobs of my orb and allowing parameters to conditionally choose which jobs to run and allow parameterization of branch and tag filters as well.

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September 25, 2018

Ben Dang

This is badly desired. It will help with standardized flows.

Renaud Lepage

Another upvote here. For simplified pipelines that

need

multi-staged jobs but that would otherwise be exactly the same steps and jobs in exactly the same sequence, this bit would be a timesaver.

Amit Levy

Please add this, I have many repos with same workflow and it would benefits a lot to have a single place to manage and change workflows for many repos

Santi Agüero

Any news about this feature? I think it would improve a lot your product if you include something to reuse workflows.

Merged in a post:

Add support for reusable workflows

Eirik Bell

Orbs offer a way to reuse jobs and commands to compose steps for workflows. However the workflows themselves is not offered as reusable from orbs. This requires a lot of code duplication for microservices which are supposed to have exactly the same workflows. And workflow changes require changes in every microservice repository.

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November 14, 2018

September 3, 2020

Brandon Chinn

Build matrix can certainly help, but if you have job1 and job2 which are different jobs (i.e. cannot be consolidated into a single job via parameters), there's still a duplication if two workflows want to use both jobs. In the same way an orb can define custom steps that encapsulate multiple steps, it would be nice if there could be a corresponding feature where an orb can define a "job" that encapsulate multiple jobs.

Scott Wheeler

We've recently released the build matrix feature, which will help reduce duplicate workflows. You can find more information on our blog here: https://circleci.com/blog/circleci-matrix-jobs/

Øystein Grændsen

This would be a great asset for us!

J K

I see this as a critical next step for orbs. Right now we have way too much duplicate code in our different repos that follow the same workflow.

Maxime Belanger

It would be nice if the orbs would be able to encapsulate workflows :)

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