# Orchestration powered by Temporal at Zscaler: Wrap, don't rewrite

DevFeed: [Orchestration powered by Temporal at Zscaler: Wrap, don't rewrite](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/orchestration-powered-by-temporal-at-zscaler-wrap-don-t-rewrite-35932.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/orchestration-powered-by-temporal-at-zscaler-wrap-dont-rewrite>)

Author: Abhishek Mitra

Published: 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ansible.md>), [opentofu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentofu.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [argocd](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/argocd.md>), [GitOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitops.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>)

Tags: [ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ansible.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [aws-cloudformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-cloudformation.md>), [bash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bash.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [gitops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitops.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how Zscaler designed a durable orchestration contract above eight heterogeneous automation engines, including Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kubernetes Cluster API, AWS CloudFormation, and Jenkins. The approach aims to coordinate existing tools without rewriting them.

## Source excerpt

How one durable contract above eight automation engines changed Zscaler's architecture without changing the engines