Chapter 4. Project deployment options with Red Hat Process Automation Manager

Deployment to an OpenShift environment

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform combines Docker and Kubernetes and enables you to create and manage containers. You can install both Business Central and Process Server on OpenShift. Red Hat Process Automation Manager provides templates that you can use to deploy a Red Hat Process Automation Manager authoring environment, managed server environment, immutable server environment, or trial environment on OpenShift. With OpenShift, components of Red Hat Process Automation Manager are deployed as separate OpenShift pods. You can scale each of the pods up and down individually, providing as few or as many containers as necessary for a particular component. You can use standard OpenShift methods to manage the pods and balance the load.

Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager authoring environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager managed server environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager immutable server environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager trial environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Deployment to Process Server

Process Server is the server provided with Red Hat Process Automation Manager that runs the decision services, process applications, and other deployable assets from a packaged and deployed Red Hat Process Automation Manager project (KJAR file). These services are consumed at run time through an instantiated KIE container, or deployment unit. You can deploy and maintain deployment units in Process Server using Business Central or using a headless Process Automation Manager controller with its associated REST API (considered a managed Process Server instance). You can also deploy and maintain deployment units using the Process Server REST API or Java client API from a standalone Maven project, an embedded Java application, or other custom environment (considered an unmanaged Process Server instance).

Packaging and deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager project

Interacting with Red Hat Process Automation Manager using KIE APIs

Managing and monitoring Process Server

Deployment to an embedded Java application

If you want to deploy Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects to your own Java virtual machine (JVM) environment, microservice, or application server, you can bundle the application resources in the project WAR files to create a deployment unit similar to a KIE container. You can also use the core KIE APIs (not Process Server APIs) to configure a KIE scanner to periodically update KIE containers.

KIE Public API