Control plane and runtime plane deployment options
Choose a control plane (MuleSoft-managed clouds, Government Cloud, Private Cloud Edition) and a compatible runtime plane (CloudHub 2.0, CloudHub, Runtime Fabric, hybrid standalone), and know who operates each part, including Runtime Fabric's shared-responsibility model.
Select deployment options of the Anypoint Platform control plane and runtime plane.
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What the exam expects
- Choose a control plane from the MuleSoft-managed clouds, Government Cloud, Government Cloud Plus and Private Cloud Edition (PCE) given data-residency and compliance constraints.
- Confirm that a chosen runtime plane is supported from the chosen control plane.
- Select Runtime Fabric, hybrid standalone, CloudHub or CloudHub 2.0 from infrastructure, isolation, runtime-version and operations requirements.
- Assign responsibilities correctly: what MuleSoft provides and what the customer operates for Runtime Fabric and hybrid runtimes.
Control plane: the management layer where you design, deploy and manage APIs and Mule apps, holding the organization, identity and design-time metadata. Runtime plane: where APIs and Mule apps are deployed, including the Mule runtime engine and supporting services. Cloud: a regional MuleSoft-managed control plane, such as US Cloud. Runtime Fabric: a MuleSoft product for deploying Mule apps and API proxies to a Kubernetes cluster that you create, configure and manage. Hybrid standalone runtime: a Mule runtime on your infrastructure managed from the control plane (Hosting overview, Runtime Fabric).
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Key facts
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- Each organization lives in exactly one cloud.
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- CloudHub and hybrid standalone; not CloudHub 2.0 or Runtime Fabric.
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- Hybrid standalone only.
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- Canada, Japan, India, Australia, UK: no CloudHub 1.0.
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- One Mule runtime per app; several runtime versions on shared resources.
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- Outbound mTLS to the control plane, opened at startup.
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- Linux required on nodes running Runtime Fabric components.
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- Do not multiply as applications or nodes increase.
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- Customer provides the ingress controller and external load balancing.
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- Apply security updates for the runtime version manually.
- When does an on-premises Mule runtime become a hybrid standalone runtime?
- Which Runtime Fabric core service lets Mule applications discover their peers in the cluster?
- Why does the Runtime Fabric agent report application state without the control plane asking?
- Which Java versions do the CloudHub 2.0 and CloudHub deployment options list?
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