One trendy topic nowadays is the possibility of deploying different middleware solutions in the cloud, in order to relieve a company from the burden of managing hardware administration and allocation for their enterprise and development configurations. The KIE Workbench is a project that was developed with the cloud in mind, and evolved to be deployable within a cloud server.

The KIE Workbench is a web application and can run on any type of server. However, it is mainly tested on top of JBoss Application Server 7.1, the current production-ready Application Server from Red Hat. Because of that, the newest distributions are quickly available to run on JBoss-based cloud providers. This is the reason for having the cloud-based distribution of the KIE Workbench prepared to run on OpenShift (http://www.openshift.com), a multiplatform (of which one of them is JBoss) cloud service. We will see how to configure a running KIE Workbench on said cloud provider...