watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition gives you a local development environment that runs on your computer. Use the watsonx Orchestrate ADK to install and manage it. The server runs on your host machine’s localhost, so it doesn’t support remote access.

watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition UI running locally

This edition runs in a Docker container and doesn’t provide a full production version of watsonx Orchestrate. Use it to build and test your agents locally with the ADK. The ADK interacts directly with the Developer Edition server, giving you more flexibility while developing your agents.