Workflow Foundation on a cloud platform

Question

I'm being asked to come up with a workflow solution for a client who deals with employee-manager requests for time off, etc. As you might expect these requests can go through a few channels before being approved so I thought workflow foundation would be the way to go. I know a little about WF but need to study up.

However, I don't know much at all about running workflow services, particularly in a cloud environment (Azure or AWS) and wondered if there were some tutorials out there for doing this?

Answer 1

Check out the Workflow Manager 1.0 that was recently announced. This is a stand alone server that provides high density workflow execution. Initially it will be installable on premises as well as on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine; however, in the future they plan to also offer as a service on Windows Azure.

Since it is a stand alone server it could also be deployed to AWS or other virtual machine hosting partners.

Answer 2

You should check out Azure Logic Apps, which has approval template built-in.