Conductor 3 UI Announcement

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Announcement - Conductor 3 UI

The Conductor 3 UI is now available on the 3.3.0 branch.

What's New?

• Improved visual hierarchy to accommodate both existing and future user stories in observability and workflow creation.
• New component design system based on Material UI and React Hooks
• Enhanced workflow graph visualization fixing edge-cases.
• Scalable handling of high-cardinality dynamic forks and retries
• Performance improvements and caching

Q&A

Why is this a minor release?

The updated UI has always been planned as part of the 3.x release, but due to logistical reasons integration is occurring now.

Is this a breaking change?

Users of the provided Docker builds should experience a seamless transition. If you are building and deploying the UI manually from source, adjustments may be needed. See the README for more info.

Where has the Node backend gone?

The UI is now a pure Single Page Application (SPA) that operates against the Conductor Server API directly. The project is based on CRA and the bundled development server acts as reverse proxy for the API.

What about authentication & access control?

We recognize that many of our users deploy Conductor in enterprise environments with varying security posture. For this reason, authentication is now unbundled from the core UI application. Examples are WIP and will be provided for different auth approaches.