Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration18% of the exam
Control plane and runtime plane responsibilities
What the Anypoint Platform control plane (management, identity, design-time metadata) and runtime plane (Mule runtime engine and services where apps run) each hold, how clouds such as US Cloud and EU Cloud set data residency, and how the Runtime Manager agent links customer-hosted runtimes to the control plane.
Identify the components and describe the benefits of the Anypoint Platform runtime planes and control planes.
~5 min read · 5 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Place a component in the control plane or the runtime plane.
- Explain that a cloud (US Cloud, EU Cloud and others) sets where design-time data lives, separately from where apps run.
- Explain why IDEs and tools must point at the organization's cloud.
- Describe what the Runtime Manager agent sends from customer-hosted runtimes to the control plane.
Key terms:
- Control plane: the management layer where you design, deploy and manage APIs and Mule apps; organization, identity and design-time metadata live here.
- Runtime plane: the components where APIs and Mule apps are deployed and made available to users, including Mule runtime engine and supporting services.
- Cloud: MuleSoft's name for a regional MuleSoft-managed control plane, such as US Cloud or EU Cloud.
- Runtime region: for CloudHub and CloudHub 2.0, the geographic location where applications execute.
- Runtime Manager agent: a Mule plug-in that mediates communication between Runtime Manager and Mule instances.
Key facts
What lives in the control plane
- Detail
- Organization, identity, design-time metadata
Control plane members
- Detail
- Design Center, Management Center, Exchange
Runtime plane members
- Detail
- Mule runtime engine and runtime services
Clouds per organization
- Detail
- Exactly one
Accounts across clouds
- Detail
- Not shared
Default cloud
- Detail
- US Cloud
Runtime region vs residency
- Detail
- Independent of control plane data residency
Hybrid default data flow
- Detail
- Only agent-pushed metadata reaches the cloud
Agent availability
- Detail
- Enterprise Mule only, not community
Sources for this section (6)
- Hosting Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Glossarydocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Control Planes Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Code Builder setupdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Deployment Optionsdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Manager Agentdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Where is the Runtime Manager agent installed and which file configures it?
- Why can Runtime Manager start and stop applications on a server in your data center?
- When would an organization pick Anypoint Platform PCE as its control plane?
- What is a Mule instance with no Runtime Manager agent registered?
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