Can we install SSIS engine without BIDS etc? If yes would it be good idea to do it on production machine

Question

I have brand new Windows machine which we are planning to use as production machine to run our SSIS packages. My pacakges are on filesystem not in SQL Server. Is it possible we can install SSIS Engine only without BIDS. Will utility like dtexec work if We install only SSIS Engine? Is it a good idea?

Answer 1

In Production you wont be developing the SSIS packages so you don't need BIDS .

BIDS is a plugin for Visual Studio with additional Project types that are
specific to SQL Server business intelligence.

While installing SQL server you should include Integration Service Instance.SSIS runtime is actually not needed to run your packages . SSIS Service Usage

Check out this article

Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service

dtexec utility comes with SQL Server to run a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package .So even without BIDS ,this utility will run your SSIS packages