Automating Starting Services in Apache NiFi and Applying Parameters Automate all the things! You can call these commands interactively or script all of them with awesome DevOps tools. @Andre Araujo and @dchaffey can tell you more about that. Enable All NiFi Services on the Canvas By running this three times, I get any stubborn ones or ones that needed something previously running. This could be put into a loop; check the status before trying again. nifi pg-list nifi pg-status nifi pg-get-services The NiFi CLI has interactive help available and also some good documentation: NiFi CLI Toolkit Guide   /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi pg-enable-services -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 --processGroupId root /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi pg-enable-services -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 --processGroupId root /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi pg-enable-services -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 --processGroupId root   We could then start a process group if we wanted:   nifi pg-start -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 -pgid 2c1860b3-7f21-36f4-a0b8-b415c652fc62   List all process groups   /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi pg-list -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080   List Parameters   /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi list-param-contexts -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 -verbose   Set parameters to set parameter context for a process group; you can loop to do all. pgid => parameter group id pcid => parameter context id I need to put this in a shell or Python script:   /opt/demo/nifi-toolkit-1.12.1/bin/cli.sh nifi pg-set-param-context -u http://edge2ai-1.dim.local:8080 -verbose -pgid 2c1860b3-7f21-36f4-a0b8-b415c652fc62 -pcid 39f0f296-0177-1000-ffff-ffffdccb6d90   Example setupnifi.sh (Github Link) You could also use the NiFi REST API or Dan's awesome Python API NiPyApi: A Python Client SDK for Apache NiFi References DevOps:  Working with Parameter Contexts NiFi Toolkit CLI No More Spaghetti Flows Report on this Apache NiFi Everything Apache Nifi Cloudera Data Platform - Using Apache NiFi REST API in the Public Cloud Using NiFi CLI to Restore NiFi Flows From Backups Automating the Building, Migration, Backup, Restore and Testing of Streaming Applications Apache NiFi Toolkit Guide An overview of Apache NiFi and Toolkit CLI deployments Automate workflow deployment in Apache NiFi with the NiFi Registry DevOps for Apache NiFi 1.7 and More ... View more