Tutorials

This page contains a sequence of tutorials which demonstrate usage of the Registered APIs feature in Globus Flows.

Registered APIs are considered an advanced feature.

If you’d like to learn more about the Globus Flows service itself first, foundational tutorials can be found at Automation with Globus Flows.

1. Install the GRA CLI

This tutorial will walk you through installing and logging into the Globus Registered API (GRA) CLI.

It should typically be installed in your normal development environment (e.g., local workstation) as it makes use of a filesystem-based configuration repository.

2. Register an API

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  1. Create a local, file-based api repository.

  2. Configure your repository based on a service’s OpenAPI specification.

  3. Publish your repository to the flows service (registering its APIs).

3. Use a Registered API in a Flow

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a flow which makes use of a Registered API, such as the one created in the previous tutorial.

Note

While the custom registration of new APIs is a subscriber-only feature, anyone may use an API that has already been registered.