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• The pipeline can be created in your preferred local editor or in the Online Workbench (since version 7.0only

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  ).

• To manually execute a pipeline locally you can use the CLI (we will cover these possibilities of the CLI later in this chapter):

  • pi pipeline file /path/to/your/local/pipeline.pi.yaml

  • pi pipeline remote key/of/your/pipeline/on/server

  • pi pipeline uri “inline-pipeline”

• But the easiest way to ad-hoc execute a pipeline is by using the Online Workbench of your portal (available since version 7.0 for

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  licenses).

What is a Command?

The most important part of a pipeline is a command. Easily spoken, a command is a single server side task or function which can be executed from outside by its unique name. It is based on the command pattern and function as a service software architecture patterns. It supports input parameters, an input message and can optionally produce an output message:

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