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Control Planes and Runtime Hosting
Choose compatible control and runtime hosting, assign infrastructure and recovery ownership, and distinguish regions, compliance boundaries and server registration.
Choose between options for hosting and managing Anypoint Platform control and runtime planes.
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What the exam expects
- Choose control-plane and runtime-plane hosting independently, then check compatibility.
- Assign infrastructure, application management and disaster-recovery responsibilities.
- Distinguish customer-hosted runtimes, Runtime Fabric and a customer-hosted control plane.
- Explain regional, government-cloud and runtime-registration boundaries.
The control plane manages APIs and applications; the runtime plane executes them; a cloud identifies a MuleSoft-managed control plane; PCE is a self-hosted control plane; Runtime Fabric orchestrates applications on customer-managed Kubernetes (Hosting overview).
Sources for this section (1)
Key facts
Plane separation
- Detail
- Management location differs from execution location.
Fabric ownership
- Detail
- The customer operates the Kubernetes infrastructure.
Fabric recovery
- Detail
- Customer-owned standby-cluster failover handles regional recovery.
PCE location
- Detail
- Customer-managed third-party-cloud infrastructure is possible.
PCE services
- Detail
- Plan external load balancing and configured object-store storage.
Government boundary
- Detail
- Customer standalone instances do not inherit FedRAMP scope.
Regional choice
- Detail
- EU Cloud's listed CH2 locations do not include Singapore.
Registration identity
- Detail
- The first concurrent instance retains the management connection.
Namespace lookup
- Detail
- Environment label precedes environment-ID name lookup.
Sources for this section (8)
- Hosting overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Fabricdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- HA and DRdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Deployment optionsdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Government Clouddocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- CloudHub2 architecturedocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Manager release notesdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Historical Runtime Fabricraw.githubusercontent.com (opens in a new tab)
- When selecting an application namespace, which environment label does Runtime Fabric search first?
- Why can Mule applications use the cluster IP service?
- When neither namespace lookup finds a match, what name is used for the new namespace?
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