The KIE Server in Docker and Azure

So far in this book, the two main environments to deploy and execute our rules in have been the OpenShift Sandbox that we described in Chapter 5 and the KIE Extended Services that we introduced in Chapter 3. Even if the KIE Sandbox web page appears to be running the rules, a quick look at the logs shows that it is the KIE Extended Services that is doing the heavy lifting of executing the rules.

This split between the editor where we write our rules and the server where we run our rules is very powerful. It means we can choose the editor that works best for us (KIE Sandbox, VS Code, or Business Central). And we can then choose the best server environment to deploy our rules.

We’ll see in the next section that Docker containers give us an enormous choice of options for where we can deploy our rules, so much choice that we can’t cover every option! But we will give you places where you can learn more. We’ll focus on replacing...