Deploying and executing decision services

When a decision service is ready for deployment, it can be securely deployed through a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) stack before being rolled out to production. Alternatively, in version 20.0.3, you also can deploy decision services directly from Decision Designer.

Automation Decision Services offers several options to build, deploy, and execute decision services:

Building and deploying in a CI/CD stack

To build and deploy decision services, the IT department can connect the Decision Designer web interface to the CI/CD stack in use in your organization. A built-in execution server, the decision runtime, enables decision services to be run with a simple REST API.

If you do not have your own processes and tools in place already, Automation Decision Services provides a sample CI/CD stack that can be installed and set up easily mainly for evaluation purposes.

 New in 20.0.3  Building and deploying from Decision Designer

As an alternative, you can now easily deploy decision services from Decision Designer thanks to an embedded build and deploy service.

Deployed decision services can be published to the Business Automation Studio catalog to be reused in other applications, or called by any client application by using the runtime REST API.