Getting Started

Automatisch is a business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes. Automating your workflows doesn't have to be a difficult or expensive process. You also don't need any programming knowledge to use Automatisch. Available as an open web service you can quickly get started. This guide describes how.

Prerequisites

• If you have not already done so, sign up for an Eyevinn OSC account.

Step 1: Setup a Postgres Database

Navigate to the PostgreSQL service in the Open Source Cloud web console and decide for a database password that you store in a secret. For instructions on how to work with secrets in Open Source Cloud read this guide. Store the password in a secret called dbpassword.

Now click on the "Create psql-db" button and enter the following values:

• Name: automatisch
• PostgresPassword: {{secrets.dbpassword}}
• PostgresUser: automatisch
• PostgresDb: automatisch

Now the Postgres database is created and once it is up and running take a note of the URL to the database. The URL is constructed as postgres://automatisch:<db-password>@<instance-ip>:<instance-port>/automatisch

Replace the <db-password>, <instance-ip> and <instance-port> with the values of your instance. See example in picture below.

Step 2: Create a Valkey store

Next step is to create a Valkey store that you will use. Navigate to the Valkey service in Open Source Cloud. Click on "Create valkey" button and enter a name of the instance, in this example we name it "automatisch".

Note down the URL to this store that is constructed as redis://<instance-ip>:<instance-port>. In this example it is redis://172.232.131.169:10545

Step 3: Create an Automatisch instance

Now it is time to create your Automatisch instance. Navigate to its service page in OSC. Store the URL to the Postgres database in a secret called psql.

Click on the button "Create automatisch" and enter the following parameters.

• Name: guide
• RedisUrl: redis://172.232.131.169:10545 - the URL to the valkey store
• PostgresUrl: {{secrets.psql}}

Once the instance is up and running you can click on the instance card.

You can use user@automatisch.io email address and sample password to login to Automatisch. Please do not forget to change your email and password from the settings page.

Now you can get started with automating your business. Read this example from the user guide how to get started with a "flow".