Design guide

Opinionated NiFi Design Guide

Published Guide

Design visible NiFi flows with clear boundaries, schema-aware ports, reusable services, failure lanes, and canonical JSON conventions.

Review checklist

Design themes this guide covers.

  • Visible orchestration
  • Processor vs script boundaries
  • Process group boundaries
  • Schema Aware ports
  • Retries and failure lanes
  • Controller service reuse
  • Parameter and secret handling
  • Canonical JSON conventions
  • Review checklist