For a $work project we have to define some workflows where individual pieces (henceforth "tasks") run distributed over several machines, and now the big question is: how do we coordinate them?

A typical use case is to run task A, and when it's finished (and successful), run tasks B and C in parallel, and when both are done (and successful), run task D.

The workers will communicate over AMQP (think RabbitMQ).

But we need a piece of software that controls the flow of all theses tasks, and of course I'd like to write in Perl. What existing software could help with that? I think I want some kind of task orchestrator, like a state machine where you can define transitions, forks and joins.

On the task scheduling side, so far I've found Minion. It looks promising, but is very light on high-level documentation. Also while it seems to support events on failed and finished jobs, it doesn't offer any further help with the orchestration. Also no AMQP support, but then I didn't find any perl-based task queues/schedulers that use AMQP.

The state machine side looks pretty bleak. Machine::State and State::Machine both allow only one state, and no joins/forks.

Can you recommend any modules or tools that will help me with coordinating those tasks?

Update: It seems like I'm looking for something like TaskFlow, only in Perl.

Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed

In reply to Task orchestrator or distributed state machine by moritz

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