Type of deployments
IBM Automation Document Processing allows you to deploy your document processing project into different environments.
In a production deployment of the platform, you can deploy your project into multiple environments, as your project moves through different phases of the project lifecycle. Each environment operates independently and has its own set of infrastructure, such as databases, storage, and so on.
- Authoring environment
- In the authoring environment, you can build and test your application.
- Runtime environment
- In the runtime environment, you can test, stage, and process for production. After your project
is built and ready for test, you can move it to the runtime environment. The following runtime
environments are normally part of the application lifecycle.
- Test
- Used for internal test, troubleshooting, and validation by your quality assurance team. Multiple iterations of a project are typically built and tested before it is ready to roll out.
- Staging
- Projects move to the staging environment for final pass testing by the DevOps team before a project is ready to be moved to production.
- Production
- Where the live application is used to process production business data.
See the Capabilities for Production deployments topic for a list of which components and capabilities are included in each kind of environment.