Robert Emsbach

This article shows the fastest way to get a Camunda Platform server running on Microsoft Azure with command line usage. You should be comfortable with using a command-line interface (CLI), otherwise please switch to my blog “Anyone can run Camunda BPM on Azure in 10 Minutes”. The resulting server will be suitable as a (shared, insecure) playground accessible via the internet. It is not a secure setup suitable for production usage. A technical operator setting up a production system would certainly approach things differently and possibly choose different Azure services.

This article shows the simplest and fastest way to get a Camunda BPM server running on Microsoft Azure without command line usage. Keeping things as simple as possible, we perform all steps in the browser. No technical knowledge of Azure or Camunda and no local tool installation are required.

In business processes involving human workflow the task assignment logic can become quite elaborate. For instance the processing of insurance claims, or other variants of approval processes, may require many or complex task assignment rules. The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) decision tables are an excellent tool to manage such rules — outside of code, in a business user-friendly way.