What combination of runtime plane and control plane options meets these project lifecycle goals?

A company wants to move its Mule API implementations into production as quickly as possible. To protect access to all Mule application data and metadata, the company requires that all Mule applications be deployed to the company’s customer-hosted infrastructure within the corporate firewall .

What combination of runtime plane and control plane options meets these project lifecycle goals?
A . Manually provisioned customer-hosted runtime plane and customer-hosted control plane
B . MuleSoft-hosted runtime plane and customer-hosted control plane
C . Manually provisioned customer-hosted runtime plane and MuleSoft-hosted control plane
D . iPaaS provisioned customer-hosted runtime plane and MuleSoft-hosted control plane

Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation

Correct Answer. Manually provisioned customer-hosted runtime plane and customer-

hosted control plane

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There are two key factors that are to be taken into consideration from the scenario given in the question.

>> Company requires both data and metadata to be resided within the corporate firewall

>> Company would like to go with customer-hosted infrastructure.

Any deployment model that is to deal with the cloud directly or indirectly (Mulesoft-hosted or Customer’s own cloud like Azure, AWS) will have to share atleast the metadata. Application data can be controlled inside firewall by having Mule Runtimes on customer hosted runtime plane. But if we go with Mulsoft-hosted/ Cloud-based control plane, the control plane required atleast some minimum level of metadata to be sent outside the corporate firewall.

As the customer requirement is pretty clear about the data and metadata both to be within the corporate firewall, even though customer wants to move to production as quickly as possible, unfortunately due to the nature of their security requirements, they have no other option but to go with manually provisioned customer-hosted runtime plane and customer-hosted control plane.