Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration18% of the exam
CloudHub, Runtime Fabric and hybrid deployment options
The runtime plane hosting options: MuleSoft-hosted CloudHub and CloudHub 2.0, customer-hosted Runtime Fabric on your own Kubernetes cluster, hybrid standalone runtimes managed from Runtime Manager, and fully disconnected on-premises runtimes, with who manages what and how CloudHub reaches private systems.
Describe the MuleSoft-hosted and customer-hosted deployment options for Anypoint Platform.
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What the exam expects
- Describe MuleSoft-hosted (CloudHub) deployment and its benefits.
- Describe the customer-hosted options: Runtime Fabric, hybrid standalone runtimes and on-premises runtimes.
- Split responsibilities between MuleSoft and the customer for each option, especially Runtime Fabric.
- Pick an option from a requirement such as air-gapped networks, trust boundaries or reaching systems behind a firewall.
Key terms:
- CloudHub: an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for deploying integration applications in the cloud; CloudHub 2.0 is its fully managed, containerized version.
- Runtime Fabric: deploys Mule applications and API proxies to a Kubernetes cluster that you create, configure and manage.
- Hybrid standalone runtime: a Mule runtime engine you host and register with Runtime Manager.
- On-premises runtime: Mule runtime engine on a single instance with no required connection to the control plane.
- Anypoint VPC: the CloudHub feature that builds a secure pipe to on-premises applications.
Key facts
CloudHub scaling
- Detail
- Elastic, without app changes or downtime
CloudHub to on-premises
- Detail
- Anypoint VPC: IPsec VPN, VPC peering, transit gateway, AWS Direct Connect
CloudHub SMTP limit
- Detail
- Blocked above 20 emails in one hour
Runtime Fabric cluster
- Detail
- Customer creates, configures and manages it
Runtime Fabric isolation
- Detail
- Separate Mule runtime per application
Runtime Fabric agent link
- Detail
- mTLS outbound connection to the control plane, set up at startup
Runtime Fabric and Docker/Kubernetes
- Detail
- Older pages: bundled; today's overview: you provide them. Exam aligns to Spring '24
Runtime regions
- Detail
- Chosen only for CloudHub and CloudHub 2.0
Hybrid first step
- Detail
- Register servers with the Runtime Manager agent
No Object Store or schedules
- Detail
- Hybrid, Runtime Fabric and PCE
Hybrid security updates
- Detail
- Applied manually by the customer
On-premises runtime
- Detail
- No required control plane connection; customer handles HA
Domains
- Detail
- Deployable only when running Mule on premises
Sources for this section (6)
- CloudHub Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Fabric Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Deployment Optionsdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Exam Guidehelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Hosting Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Mule Runtime Engine Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why would a CloudHub app that emails a report every minute stop sending?
- When must you deploy Mule domain projects instead of relying on CloudHub?
- Which Runtime Manager features are unavailable for hybrid deployments?
- How does the Runtime Fabric agent talk to the control plane?
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