Continuous deployment
As was briefly mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, CD is the process by which the automation artifacts that have been built are transported and installed in a runtime environment, in which they can be executed and, consequently, they can perform their role.
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation makes deployment easy, yet customizable. When Cloud Pak is installed, a default runtime environment is created and configured to be accessible and registered in the various authoring tools and embedded integration pipelines. This environment is called the default runtime, or embedded runtime.
This default environment is used for validating changes that are made to the source automation artifacts when they are developed, by offering a place for immediate execution. For example, when building an automation application, you can press the Run button to execute it right away. This is the same for a workflow, where the Playback button gives access to the same functionality...