Architecting and deploying API implementations11% of the exam
Automated Build Test and Deployment
Automate packaging, MUnit execution and deployment with explicit artifact, target, identity and verification boundaries.
Explain options for automated building, testing, and deployment of API implementations and related artifacts in a DevOps setting.
~7 min read · 9 practice questions
What the exam expects
- Separate packaging, automated testing, repository publication and runtime deployment.
- Select deployment strategy and understand its status-verification controls.
- Make CLI installation, plugin versions and authentication explicit.
- Preserve deployed-artifact evidence and unambiguous scripted command arguments.
An artifact is a packaged application; a deployment strategy selects its runtime destination; a connected app supplies an automation identity; a CLI plugin supplies a group of platform commands (Mule Maven plugin, CLI authentication, installation).
Key facts
Package
- Detail
- Produces an application JAR.
- Source
- MMP (opens in a new tab)
Runtime deployment
- Detail
muleDeployselects the configured runtime strategy.- Source
- MMP (opens in a new tab)
Automated tests
- Detail
- Bind MUnit's test execution and dependencies in the POM.
Verification
- Detail
skipDeploymentVerificationcontrols the status check.- Source
- MMP (opens in a new tab)
Cleanup
- Detail
- Plugin 3.3.0+ undeploy removes and deletes the target application.
- Source
- MMP (opens in a new tab)
Hybrid archive
- Detail
- Retrieve with REST services or CLI.
Inventory
- Detail
plugins --coreincludes installed plugin versions.
Token identity
- Detail
- Explicit bearer credentials take precedence over supplied user/client pairs.
Base grants
- Detail
- Connected apps need View Organization and View Environment.
Migration
- Detail
- Batch context replaces interactive context changes.
List arguments
- Detail
- Keep the positional API project outside the ruleset list.
Sources for this section (7)
- MMPdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- MUnit Mavendocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Managementdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Installdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Authenticationdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Differencesdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Governancedocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- When credential settings should persist for later CLI invocations, which command writes them to its configuration file?
- Why is
ANYPOINT_HOSTrelevant when reviewing a CLI connection configuration? - When inspecting the CLI's no-command help output, which section lists installed command topics?
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