Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for API management10% of the exam
Universal API Management across the full API lifecycle
Why API sprawl calls for Universal API Management, how Anypoint products map to the design and build, discover, govern, manage and secure, and engage stages, and how API Catalog CLI and Omni Gateway reach APIs built anywhere.
Identify how MuleSoft products realize the goals of full lifecycle API development and Universal API Management (UAPIM).
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What the exam expects
- Define Universal API Management and explain how it extends full lifecycle API management.
- Name the challenges of API sprawl that UAPIM addresses.
- Map Anypoint products to the stages of MuleSoft's API management journey.
- Explain how APIs built outside MuleSoft tools are discovered automatically and secured close to where they run.
Key terms:
- Full lifecycle API management: overseeing an API from creation to retirement.
- API sprawl: the uncoordinated proliferation of APIs across technologies, standards and deployments.
- Universal API Management (UAPIM): full lifecycle capabilities opened to APIs built, implemented or hosted anywhere.
- API Catalog CLI: a command-line tool that catalogs API definitions and publishes them to Exchange.
- Omni Gateway: MuleSoft's lightweight, Envoy-based gateway, formerly Flex Gateway.
Key facts
UAPIM scope
- Detail
- Any origin, architecture, environment and audience
Sprawl challenges
- Detail
- Visibility, governance, complexity, security, consistency, performance
Journey stages
- Detail
- Design and build, discover, manage and secure, govern, engage
Journey start
- Detail
- You can start anywhere in the journey
Catalog CLI tooling
- Detail
- Agnostic of CI/CD tools and runtime environments
Catalog CLI formats
- Detail
- AsyncAPI 2.0; OAS 2.0, 3.0, 3.1; RAML 0.8, 1.0
Gateway control plane
- Detail
- MuleSoft-hosted; policies and monitoring in API Manager
UAPIM personas
- Detail
- Developers, API product managers, architects
Managed gateway for a team with no ops capacity
- Detail
- CloudHub 2.0; Runtime Fabric still needs a customer-managed cluster
Runtime to control plane
- Detail
- Secured with mTLS and HTTPS
Sources for this section (5)
- What Is Universal API Management?www.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- API management learning mapdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- API Catalog CLIdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Omni Gateway Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Fabric Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why does a Self-Managed Omni Gateway cluster run several replicas?
- When does API Catalog CLI decide which APIs a run publishes?
- What three roles does MuleSoft say UAPIM serves?
- Which file holds the metadata Exchange needs to catalog APIs with the CLI?
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