## Workflows & Automations

Our goal with **Workflows & Automations** includes a standardization on **Python** as our backend language of choice. We wanted to standardize on a common web framework as well.

While **Flask** and **FastAPI** are the most popular for APIs, they tend to have a no-batteries-included approach leading to N+1 ways of building software. However, opsZero is building an opinionated stack and this requires standardization, and we have chosen **Django** for our Web Framework.

Our entire business is already reliant on Django as the primary framework so we have extensive experience using it, and absolutely love the built-in templating and ORM with migrations.

Lastly, with **ASGI**, a lot of extra features for **WebSockets** and **Events** are built into the framework using **channels**. The built-in functionality along with years of Django experience means we can provide Django expertise quickly.

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## Pre-Built Django Templates

We want to meet our customers' needs regardless of the Cloud they are using and with the lowest cost possible, so we are making available pre-built templates to use Django in both **Serverless** as well as **Kubernetes** environments.

We are releasing three templates:

- [Django for Helm](https://github.com/opszero/template-helm-django) – Configures Django to be deployed onto any Kubernetes environment using Helm charts powered by Tiphys.
- [Django for AWS Lambda](https://github.com/opszero/template-aws-lambda-django) – Powered by the Serverless Framework; deploys on AWS Lambda.
- [Django for Azure Functions](https://github.com/opszero/template-azure-functions-django) – Powered by the Serverless Framework; deploys on Azure Functions.

These three templates allow us to deliver value to you faster.