# Runtime Hosting and Deployment Management

*MuleSoft Platform Architect Study Guide · Architecting and deploying API implementations · Last updated November 13, 2026 · https://www.certifyforce.com/study-guide/mulesoft-platform-architect/architecting-and-deploying-api-implementations/runtime-hosting-and-deployment-management*

Manage API implementations across CloudHub, hybrid servers and Runtime Fabric, distinguishing deployment ownership, application state and operational tools.

- Certification: Salesforce MuleSoft Platform Architect
- Exam section: Architecting and deploying API implementations
- Study guide: https://www.certifyforce.com/study-guide/mulesoft-platform-architect

**Official exam objective:**

> Compare and contrast options for hosting and managing Anypoint Platform runtime planes.

## What the exam expects

- Compare the operational deployment paths for managed cloud and customer-hosted runtimes.
- Preserve Runtime Manager's ownership of hybrid application deployments.
- Explain application resynchronization, removal and group membership changes.
- Separate flow activation, state enforcement, logs and deployment-state reporting.

A **deployment target** receives an application; a **hybrid deployment** runs on customer servers managed through the cloud console; **resynchronization** reconciles managed applications after runtime restart; **Unmanage** releases a flow from Runtime Manager's state enforcement ([deployment options](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/deployment-strategies), [hybrid management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers), [flows](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/flow-management)).

## Key facts

| Fact | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid application ownership | Deploy through Runtime Manager; manual local copies are not discovered. | [Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers) |
| Local deletion | Runtime restart resynchronizes missing managed applications. | [Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers) |
| Permanent removal | Use the management UI or REST API. | [Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers) |
| New member | Receives target applications without requiring an online peer. | [Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers) |
| Delete availability | A server, or at least one group/cluster member, must run. | [Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers) |
| Flow Start | Activates; it does not trigger an endpoint. | [Flows](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/flow-management) |
| Flow ownership | Unmanage releases the enforced state. | [Flows](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/flow-management) |
| Hybrid logs | Use an appropriate external logging path. | [Options](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/deployment-strategies) |
| Fabric reporting | The agent reports labelled Deployment state changes. | [Fabric](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/latest/) |

## Check yourself

- When viewing a hybrid application's panel, how can an operator open the corresponding server information?
- Why can the application panel help date a deployment change?
- When more detailed application settings are needed from the panel, which button opens them?

## Sources

- [Deployment Options](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/deployment-strategies)
- [Manage Applications on Your Servers](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/managing-applications-on-your-own-servers)
- [Flow Management](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/flow-management)
- [Anypoint Runtime Fabric Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/latest/)

## About the full unit

The "Core concepts", "Exam traps" and "Worked scenario" sections of this unit, its 8 linked practice questions, and unlimited timed mock exams are included with the MuleSoft Platform Architect pack (USD $19): https://www.certifyforce.com/practice-exams