Back up your automation workflows to GitLab automatically

Every day the system checks your automation workflows against GitLab and commits any changes automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each automation workflow.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCRAPI & Webhook IntegrationFile & Cloud StorageDevOps & IT Operations
Connects
GitLab

The problem it solves

If your automation workflows only exist in one place, you have no history of changes and no way to recover if something breaks. Keeping a manual backup means remembering to do it, which is easy to skip when things get busy.

Who it fits

A business running internal automations that wants version history and a safety net.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically on a daily schedule
  2. Pulls the current version of each automation workflow
  3. Compares it against the version stored in GitLab
  4. Commits an updated file to GitLab if anything changed
  5. Your workflow history builds up automatically over time
What you get

Workflow versions you can always roll back to

Your automation workflows get backed up to GitLab automatically every day, building a full version history.

What you get

A version-controlled backup of your automation workflows in GitLab, updated daily.

What you need

A self-hosted automation environment and a GitLab account with a personal access token.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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