Take advantage of the workflows framework to automate your Day 2 operations. Quickly write a workflow that communicates with a Cloud API or a particular resource. Use SSH, PowerShell, or a similar tool, to access and then extend the workflow capabilities.

Day 1 operations provision resources in a cloud as part of ordering from the ServiceNow catalog or the cloud catalog. These operations result in a stack that contains a list of provisioned resources. Day 2 operations can be carried out on the resources that are part of the stack or the resources discovered by the system.

Previously, to execute Day 2 operations in Cloud Provisioning and Governance, you had to interact directly with the Cloud API (CAPI), which frequently meant that you had to write new APIs to support a new operation. You can now use subflows to map Day 2 operations and create REST endpoints that call cloud providers and trigger platform-specific actions.

Learn more

To learn about workflows in general, see:

• Workflow overview
• Create a workflow from a table

To learn about how to work with variables in workflows, see:

• Workflow input variables
• Using variables in a workflow