Preparing to install Business Automation Workflow Runtime and Workstream Services
Before you install IBM Business Automation Workflow Runtime and Workstream Services, you must prepare your environment, which includes setting up databases and storage and creating secrets.
About this task
These instructions cover two different capabilities: Workflow (Runtime) and Workstream Services.
- Business Automation Workflow and Workstream Services
- Business Automation Workflow
- Workstream Services
The following diagram shows
the components that you can select for Business Automation Workflow Runtime from the
workflow
pattern. You must make sure that you prepare everything that is needed by
these components before you apply your custom resource.

For information about the parameters that you provide for the configuration, see IBM Business Automation Workflow Runtime and Workstream Services parameters.
To enable IBM Business Automation Application data persistence, see Configuring Application Engine.
What to do next
The next task to complete depends on the capabilities that you selected for your deployment. You must prepare all of these capabilities and any dependencies. Jump to the capability in the table of contents or from the parent topic.
After you complete all of the preparation steps for all of the capabilities that you want to install, go ahead and create a production deployment. For more information, see Creating a production deployment.