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Packaging and deployment overview

Deployment is the process of transferring data to an integration server on an integration node so that the data can take effect in the integration node. Message flows and associated resources are packaged in BAR files for deployment.

When you create application resources such as message flows in the IBM® Integration Toolkit, you must distribute them to the integration node on which you want them to run. Data for message flows and associated resources is packaged in a BAR file before being sent to the integration node.

You can package and deploy message flows and associated resources in one step by using the IBM Integration Toolkit. You can use this approach when you are developing your flows to make changes and quickly see the results. When you want to deploy to a production environment, you can separate the packaging and deployment steps by first packaging your resources into a BAR file and then deploying that file at a later time. You can create BAR files in the following ways: Depending on your work patterns, you might use all these methods at different times. These options are described in Deployment methods.

Try to avoid a mixed deployment case that has message flows deployed as CMF and subflows (.subflow) deployed as source files, along with the ESQL modules that are referenced by these subflows. For more information about this behavior, and examples of the recommended deployment options, see Deploying solutions.

After you create a BAR file, you can customize the file for deployment to different integration nodes (for example, to specify queue names or data source names). For more information about customizing your BAR file, see Configurable properties of a BAR file.

You can also use operational policies to control certain aspects of message flow behavior at run time. For more information, see Operational policy.

After you create a BAR file and customize it, you can deploy the BAR file in the following ways:

After you read these overview topics, find detailed instructions for the tasks that you want to complete in subsequent topics in this section.


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