Is there any difference between just using zeebe engine and self-managed free edition camunda 8 platform in production?

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We plan to start using camunda 8 for microservice orchestration. Given that Operate, TaskList and Optimize cannot be used in production without a commercial license, is there any difference between saying that we are using just the zeebe workflow engine vs saying we are using camunda 8 platform?

In my understanding both are the same. With the self managed free edition we would be defining the workflow first in cawemo (for user collaboration) and then editing it in the desktop modeler tool. Once ready it would be deployed to the k8s managed production cluster where it would be executed by the zeebe workflow engine.

Practically we can use only zeebe engine in production. There isn’t anything else of the camunda 8 platform that we can use in the free version. Is that understanding right?

Thanks.

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Hey @JGeek!
Yes you are correct. Only the Zeebe engine is free to use in production. The flow you have mentioned (Cawemo + Desktop Modeler + Zeebe) should be for free in production.

I think the differentiation between Camunda Platform 8 and Zeebe is that the “Platform” contains much more than only the workflow engine. (e.g. Operate, Tasklist and Optimize)
So Zeebe is only a small portion of the Platform. :slight_smile:

Hopefully this was helpful to you!
-Thomas

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