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Use Cases Overview
Eight verified, end-to-end automation workflows - what each demonstrates and where to start
Every workflow in this section is complete, realistic, and verified: each was executed against the released OrchStep binary - happy paths and failure paths - and the outputs printed on the pages are real. Copy any of them and adapt; the structures survive contact with production.
The portfolio
| Use case | Persona | Engine features it exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Release Automation | release eng | transform (semver), real git, approval gates, post-conditions |
| Environment Promotion | deploy eng | env_groups/environments, --env, parallel checks, retry/backoff |
| Modular Data Pipeline | data eng | module composition, parallel fan-out, with: params, catch/finally |
| Monorepo CI Gate | build eng | git change detection, JS planning, loop+skip, merge gate |
| Database Backup Drill | DBA / ops | real sqlite, restore drills, retention rotation, alerting |
| Certificate Expiry Audit | security / ops | inventory loops, openssl, JS aggregation, tunable policy |
| Incident Response Runbook | SRE / on-call | prompts with CLI pre-answers, parallel diagnostics, switch routing |
| Service Scaffolding | platform | golden path prompts, guards, language variants, catalog |
| Blue/Green Rollout | deploy eng | state discovery, pre-flip verification, atomic cutover, auto-rollback |
| Error Budget Report | SRE | log crunching, JS SLO math, runtime-tunable release gate |
| Compliance-Gated Change | governance | collect-then-judge policies, evidence bundles, hash-chained audit log |
How to choose a starting point
- Deploying software? Start with Environment Promotion, add the approval and rollback ideas from Release Automation.
- Building internal tooling? Service Scaffolding and Incident Response show the prompt-driven, human-in-the-loop style.
- Data or batch work? The Modular Data Pipeline is the composition template; the Backup Drill shows verification discipline.
- Guarding a codebase? Monorepo CI Gate and Certificate Expiry Audit are both sweep-evaluate-gate shapes you can re-skin in an afternoon.
All eight compose: the scaffolder can emit a deploy workflow per service, the CI gate can call the release pipeline, the runbook can be triggered by the cert audit's alert. Tasks and modules are the composition primitives - see Learn OrchStep for the ground-up path.