Chapter 5. Installation environment options

With Red Hat Process Automation Manager, you can set up a development environment to develop process-driven applications, a runtime environment to run those applications to support decisions, or both.

A development environment typically consists of one Business Central installation and at least one Process Server installation. Business Central enables developers to create decision processes, rules, and other artifacts. They use Process Server to test the artifacts that they created.

A runtime environment consists of one or more Process Server instances with or without Business Central. Business Central has an embedded Process Automation Manager controller. If you install Business Central, use the Execution Server page to create and maintain containers. If you want to automate Process Server management without Business Central, you can use the headless Process Automation Manager controller.

You can cluster both development and runtime environments. The primary benefit of clustering Red Hat Process Automation Manager development environments is high availability and enhanced collaboration. The primary benefit of clustering a runtime environment is load balancing and high availability. If activity on one node of the cluster increases, that activity can be shared among the other nodes of the cluster to improve performance.

Clustering of the run time environment is supported on Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.2 and OpenShift, however clustering of Business Central is currently in technology preview.