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Chapter 1. Overview

If you have an OpenShift environment, you can deploy Red Hat Decision Manager into this environment instead of a regular on-premises deployment.

In this solution, Decision Server is deployed as an OpenShift pod. You can scale the pod up and down, providing as few or as many containers as necessary. You can use all standard OpenShift methods to manage the pod, balance the load, and deploy new versions.

You can also deploy Decision Central on the OpenShift infrastructure together with Decision Server. In this case, you can use Decision Central to manage the Decision Server and to develop new rules.

Alternatively, you can deploy Decision Server without Decision Central. To manage Decision Server in this case, you have several options:

  • Use the source to image (S2I) template and provide a Git repository with the source of your decision service. OpenShift automatically builds the source, installs the decision service into the Decision Server image, and starts the service. You do not need to manage the Decision Server. If you want to use a new version of the decision service, you can build a new image. This option is often preferable for typical integration approaches in a containerized infrastructure.
  • Configure the Decision Server to load the service automatically from a Maven repository.
  • Use an instance of Decision Central, a controller, or the REST API to manage the Decision Server.
Important

All calls to a Decision Server that runs on OpenShift must be stateless. While the server accepts stateful calls, the state might not be saved between calls, because the server can be scaled to multiple containers or might be restarted by OpenShift automatically.