Policy driven provision and deployment of an application

A computer-implemented method for a policy driven provision and deployment of an application into a runtime environment of a device in a plant, comprising:

• by an application provider unit,
• assigning at least one attribute to the application, each attribute providing information related to the development and/or application provider of the application,
• publishing an application package comprising the application and the at least one attribute,
• by an application management unit located in the plant,
• establishing an attribute policy for the runtime environment comprising at least one attribute and assigning at least one requirement and/or restriction of a deployment parameter of the runtime environment to at least one attribute or to a group of attributes of the application,
• at the start of the application on the runtime environment,
• evaluating the at least one attribute included in the application package against the attribute policy of the runtime environment, and
• configuring the runtime environment according to the at least one requirement and/or restriction of the deployment parameter resulting from the evaluation of the at least one attribute, and
• initiating execution of the application on the configured runtime environment.