> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://openops-f559c8bf.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Workflow Templates

> How to create automations from a library of pre-configured workflow templates

OpenOps provides a pre-made library of FinOps best-practice workflows, based on research and input from FinOps leaders across industries and verticals.

The library, referred to as the **Templates catalog**, contains dozens of templates that provide ready-to-use recipes for anomaly management, workload and rate optimization across the following cloud services:

* Amazon EC2, CloudWatch, EBS, CloudFront, RDS, and S3
* Azure VM

## Exploring templates

To view the catalog, click **Explore templates** in the top-right menu bar in the **Overview** or **Workflows** section:

![Explore Templates](https://mintcdn.com/openops-f559c8bf/jHP4JOF17NoTQvTt/images/explore-templates.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=jHP4JOF17NoTQvTt\&q=85\&s=cade896696c459c58fe496eac4280ebd)

The catalog will open in an overlay:

![OpenOps Templates Catalog before signing up with OpenOps Cloud](https://mintcdn.com/openops-f559c8bf/gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5/images/templates-catalog.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5\&q=85\&s=2d8585301016b8917f2617acc69d3d2d)

By default, the catalog contains six templates. To view more, click **Explore more** and sign up for a free OpenOps Cloud account. As a result, the **Templates catalog** in your OpenOps installation will be extended to show all available templates:

![OpenOps Templates Catalog after signing up with OpenOps Cloud](https://mintcdn.com/openops-f559c8bf/gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5/images/templates-catalog-all-templates.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5\&q=85\&s=3ab1c67e9f712ffddd717302332a7e65)

## Creating workflows based on templates

When you click a template in the catalog, OpenOps displays its full description, a preview diagram visualizing the workflow steps defined in the template, and the integrations that the template uses:

![CloudWatch log retention enforcement template](https://mintcdn.com/openops-f559c8bf/gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5/images/template-log-retention.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5\&q=85\&s=a0c4b92a3e1c26f2bfb7c748d19be7ed)

If you want to use the workflow defined in the template, click **Use template** in the top-right corner.

OpenOps will then ask you to specify existing or create new connections to cloud services that are required for the selected template to work:

![Explore Templates](https://mintcdn.com/openops-f559c8bf/gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5/images/template-connections.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=gQJpq14WxmjJU9s5\&q=85\&s=4b8d19d4262b89f18876aa139ff85366)

You can set up the required connections now or later. When you click **Create workflow**, your workflow will open in the workflow editor, where you can [customize it to your liking](https://openops-f559c8bf.mintlify.site/workflow-management/building-workflows.md).


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