BMC Deployment Engine overview

BMC Deployment Engine is an automated deployment tool that is used to deploy, upgrade, patch, and manage configuration of BMC Helix Innovation Suite in your environment. It is a logical entity that uses tools, such as Jenkins and Ansible to deploy BMC application workloads. 

The following diagram shows how the BMC Deployment Engine works:

You use the BMC Deployment Engine to perform the following tasks: 

• Install BMC Helix Innovation Suite.
• Call the relevant pipelines that deploy applications, such as BMC Helix Single-Sign On, BMC Helix ITSM, and other applications.

For information about setting up BMC Deployment Engine, see Setting up BMC Deployment Engine.