Deploy Mule Applications

All Mule applications are deployed to a Mule runtime engine instance. MuleSoft supports three different deployment targets: CloudHub, Anypoint Runtime Fabric, and on-premises Mule instances.

When you deploy applications to CloudHub or to Anypoint Runtime Fabric, these services take care of the Mule runtime engine instances needed to run applications.

If you deploy applications on-premises, the installation of Mule runtime engine is required.
See On-Premises Deployment Model for more information about characteristics specific to on-premises deployments.

In addition, the tools available to deploy applications to each of the deployment targets differ:

Deployment Target	Available Deployment Tools	Mule Runtime Engine Installation
CloudHub	Anypoint Studio Anypoint Runtime Manager Anypoint Platform CLI Mule Maven plugin	No installation of Mule runtime engine is required, because CloudHub workers start Mule instances as part of the deployment process.
Anypoint Runtime Fabric	Anypoint Runtime Manager Runtime Manager in Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition Mule Maven plugin	No installation of Mule runtime engine is required, because Anypoint Runtime Fabric internally starts Mule instances as part of the deployment process. Installation of Anypoint Runtime Fabric in your desired infrastructure is required
On-premises	Anypoint Studio Anypoint Runtime Manager Runtime Manager in Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition Anypoint Platform CLI Mule Maven plugin	Installation of Mule runtime engine in your desired infrastructure is required. You are responsible for the installation and configuration of your Mule instances.

Deployment Target

Available Deployment Tools

Mule Runtime Engine Installation

CloudHub

Anypoint Studio
Anypoint Runtime Manager
Anypoint Platform CLI
Mule Maven plugin

No installation of Mule runtime engine is required, because CloudHub workers start Mule instances as part of the deployment process.

Anypoint Runtime Fabric

Anypoint Runtime Manager
Runtime Manager in Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition
Mule Maven plugin

No installation of Mule runtime engine is required, because Anypoint Runtime Fabric internally starts Mule instances as part of the deployment process.
Installation of Anypoint Runtime Fabric in your desired infrastructure is required

On-premises

Anypoint Studio
Anypoint Runtime Manager
Runtime Manager in Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition
Anypoint Platform CLI
Mule Maven plugin

Installation of Mule runtime engine in your desired infrastructure is required.
You are responsible for the installation and configuration of your Mule instances.

Deploy Mule Applications

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