IBM Workflow Process Service — overview + installation (CP4BA 23.0.1)

Greg Meszaros
5 min readDec 21, 2023

Workflow Process Service is a small-footprint business automation environment that you can use to develop, test, and run workflow processes that orchestrate human tasks and services.

Workflow Process Service(WfPS) provides an Authoring environment and a Runtime environment(optional), each deployed as a single container.

Overall architecture shown on the diagram below:

Workflow Process Service is part of the Cloud Pak for Business Automation suite and can be easily installed on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).

There are few different installation options available for installing this product depending on if Authoring needs to be installed or just the Runtime, or if we are doing a disconnected(Airgapped) or a standard installation with full internet access.
There are also some helper scripts which can be used (optional) to make the installation even quicker.

The different options are available to review here.

The installation procedure can be described in 2 simple steps:
1, Install Cloud Pak for…

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Greg Meszaros
Greg Meszaros

Written by Greg Meszaros

I am a Cloud Platform Engineer and DevOps enthusiast who loves automation mostly working with Kubernetes and Terraform/Ansible stack.

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