Step 1: Deploying a Service as Container

Follow Our Example User Story

So far, David Stringer worked in the Designer's test environment. He created several forms, a BPMN model, mapping diagrams and configured the instance list of the service. Now he wants to continue developing the service while his business colleagues are supposed to test the first version. Therefore, David needs to deploy the service.

You are going to help him with that task.

Why deploy a service?

Deploying a service is necessary to make it available to users. During development, a service is created and tested in a test environment. After successful testing, the service is deployed to the production system where it can be run by the appropriate user groups.

Especially in fusion teams, developers want to make a finished feature or an intermediate state of a service available to other team members for testing while they continue to work on the same service. This is easily possible in the Designer by using the test environment for developing, and deploying to the test server only when necessary. You only need to deploy your service if you want to allow other team members to test new features or if you want to run regeression tests against your test server.

For further details on testing and deploying, refer to Working with the Test Environment and Deploying a Service in the Designer Guide.

The Deployment Controls and the Service Configuration are located on the service details page. Click on the Service panel tab (service name) to open the details page:

In section Options, select the deployment target Container. The container name is determined automatically and corresponds to the name of the service:

In section Controls, enter a version number for your service:

We recommend to increase the number with each deployment.

Scroll down to the Service Configuration and enter some explanations about your service in the Description section. Save your input:

You service is ready to be deployed. Go to section Controls and use Deploy Service to start the deployment:

Section Status keeps you up to date on the ongoing processing of the deployment steps:

Wait for the following message to appear:

The deployment has been finished and the Service Status has changed to Running: