Spooky Stories: Taming deployment complexity with Temporal
Oct 30, 2024

Summary
This post demonstrates how Temporal Workflows can be used to manage complex deployment processes, specifically detailing the "7 Levels of Hell Deployment." It illustrates how Workflows can abstract multi-repository builds (Level 2), handle blue-green deployments by orchestrating infrastructure updates and router configuration (Level 3), and incorporate manual approval steps via integrations like Slack (Level 4). The post highlights how Temporal's durable execution, retries, and state persistence simplify these previously complex "systems" into manageable Workflow definitions.