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Chapter 1: Getting Started

Welcome to Chapter 1: Getting Started. In this part of Activepieces Tutorial: Open-Source Automation, Pieces, and AI-Ready Workflow Operations, you will build an intuitive mental model first, then move into concrete implementation details and practical production tradeoffs.

This chapter provides a fast path to first workflow value with minimal setup overhead.

Learning Goals

  • choose an installation path that matches your current stage
  • run the platform locally and validate a first flow
  • understand where key operational settings live
  • establish a reproducible team onboarding baseline

Fast Start Workflow

  1. start from the Install Overview
  2. choose Docker or Docker Compose for first-run setup
  3. validate platform startup and account access
  4. create one simple trigger-action flow
  5. capture setup and validation notes in a short team runbook

Source References

Summary

You now have a working baseline for expanding Activepieces usage safely.

Next: Chapter 2: System Architecture: App, Worker, Engine

Source Code Walkthrough

deploy/pulumi/taggable.ts

The isTaggable function in deploy/pulumi/taggable.ts handles a key part of this chapter's functionality:

/**
 * isTaggable returns true if the given resource type is an AWS resource that supports tags.
 */
 export function isTaggable(t: string): boolean {
    return (taggableResourceTypes.indexOf(t) !== -1);
}

// taggableResourceTypes is a list of known AWS type tokens that are taggable.
const taggableResourceTypes = [
    "aws:accessanalyzer/analyzer:Analyzer",
    "aws:acm/certificate:Certificate",
    "aws:acmpca/certificateAuthority:CertificateAuthority",
    "aws:alb/loadBalancer:LoadBalancer",
    "aws:alb/targetGroup:TargetGroup",
    "aws:apigateway/apiKey:ApiKey",
    "aws:apigateway/clientCertificate:ClientCertificate",
    "aws:apigateway/domainName:DomainName",
    "aws:apigateway/restApi:RestApi",
    "aws:apigateway/stage:Stage",
    "aws:apigateway/usagePlan:UsagePlan",
    "aws:apigateway/vpcLink:VpcLink",
    "aws:applicationloadbalancing/loadBalancer:LoadBalancer",
    "aws:applicationloadbalancing/targetGroup:TargetGroup",
    "aws:appmesh/mesh:Mesh",
    "aws:appmesh/route:Route",
    "aws:appmesh/virtualNode:VirtualNode",
    "aws:appmesh/virtualRouter:VirtualRouter",
    "aws:appmesh/virtualService:VirtualService",
    "aws:appsync/graphQLApi:GraphQLApi",
    "aws:athena/workgroup:Workgroup",
    "aws:autoscaling/group:Group",

This function is important because it defines how Activepieces Tutorial: Open-Source Automation, Pieces, and AI-Ready Workflow Operations implements the patterns covered in this chapter.

How These Components Connect

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