Maintain Your MuleSoft Platform Architect Certification for Summer ’25

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

Deploy a Flex Gateway to publish a secure API.
Set up your CloudHub 2.0 infrastructure and network connections.
Power Agentforce with MuleSoft APIs and connectors.

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Salesforce introduced some great feature enhancements over the past year. Take a look at some of the more important ones.

Managed Flex Gateway

Extend Anypoint Platform to all APIs and AI services with a self-managed and distributed gateway for APIs running across any environment. The ultrafast Anypoint Flex Gateway from MuleSoft can protect and manage any API. This envoy-based gateway supports multiple deployment options like Kubernetes-based target environments, IBM Power, and Heroku, as well as on-premise deployment.

MuleSoft has extended the proven Flex Gateway capabilities to a fully-managed Flex Gateway on CloudHub 2.0, which makes planning infrastructure, maintaining, scaling, and troubleshooting API Gateway easier. This lets development teams automate deployment, management, and monitoring of their API Gateways, while ensuring enterprise-grade security throughout the API lifecycle.

Managed Flex Gateway Benefits

A Managed Flex Gateway allows API traffic to be handled closer to your services, reducing latency while maintaining visibility through Anypoint Platform. With automatic policy syncing, easy monitoring, and secure configurations, it simplifies API governance across hybrid and multicloud environments. Ultimately, it empowers teams to scale securely and efficiently without losing operational control.

Set Up a Managed Flex Gateway

To set up a Managed Flex Gateway, start by registering the gateway in Anypoint Platform. From there, download the registration configuration file. Then apply it when initializing the gateway in your Kubernetes environment or on your virtual machine (VM). Once deployed, the gateway automatically connects with Anypoint Manager for centralized control. After setup, you can apply policies, monitor traffic, and manage API configurations, all from a single interface.

The platform provides robust monitoring, security policies, and governance tools to ensure your APIs meet the highest standards of performance and security.

Set up a fully managed, secure, and scalable gateway for your APIs by following these steps.

Ensure the business group your gateway is being deployed to has Managed Flex Gateway Resources.
Create a private space in CloudHub 2.0
Set up a Managed Flex Gateway
Configure advanced options
Explore the Gateway dashboard
Deploy an API to your Flex Gateway
Configure API settings
Secure your API with policies

Managed Flex Gateway handles the infrastructure of your non-MuleSoft APIs and eliminates the overhead of managing container dependencies. It frees your team from provisioning Kubernetes clusters and from configuring infrastructure while handling gateway deployment. MuleSoft takes on the operational burden of API management and governance. With Anypoint Flex Gateway, architects and developers can easily:

Manage and secure any API, built anywhere.
Implement any architecture.
Deploy quickly to their environment of choice.
Integrate seamlessly with existing DevOps processes.
Secure AI with zero trust by default.

Anypoint API Gateways Comparison

Review the following types of Anypoint API Gateways to determine which is the best gateway option for your business.

	Managed Flex Gateway	Flex Gateway	Mule Gateway
Application:	Non-MuleSoft APIs	Non-MuleSoft APIs	MuleSoft APIs
Description:	Fully managed deployment of Flex Gateway on CloudHub 2.0.	Flexible, customer-managed deployment options for BYO architecture.	Applies to APIs deployed in Mule Runtime (embedded gateway). Works as a Standalone Proxy for both Mule and non-Mule APIs.
Product Features:	Secure any API without worrying about maintenance and infrastructure management Reduce total cost per ownership.	Intended for high-performance or high-scale scenarios for on-premise deployment. Customize deployments.	Secures a single MuleSoft API (basic endpoint) and non-Mule runtimes with a Mule proxy application. Offers backend SOAP Services protection.
Key Capabilities:	Fully managed by MuleSoft. Includes all the capabilities of Flex Gateway.	Creates a small footprint. Includes multiple deployment patterns and modes.	Includes the same technology as Mule integration apps, plus API auto-discovery for MuleSoft apps.

CloudHub 1.0 VPC to CloudHub 2.0 Private Space Upgrade

CloudHub 2.0 is an enhanced, Kubernetes-based platform built on iPaaS experience and insights from MuleSoft. This replatforming has unlocked a range of exclusive features for customers on CloudHub 2.0. If you haven’t upgraded yet, remember that CloudHub 1.0 won’t be available indefinitely. The upgrade helps customers transition from CloudHub 1.0 VPCs to CloudHub 2.0 Private Spaces with minimal disruption. It automates much of the migration process, reducing manual setup and potential errors. This ensures a smoother path to modernizing infrastructure on MuleSoft’s latest cloud architecture.

CloudHub 2.0 Features and Benefits

What makes it the better choice? CloudHub 2.0 can significantly enhance your operational efficiency and set up environments faster through its streamlined configuration for private spaces and network connectivity. The platform’s fully managed infrastructure in the cloud, featuring auto-provisioning and scaling ingress, simplifies the configuration process while reducing overhead. Improve performance and scale quickly to meet demand, ensuring your applications run smoothly and efficiently with the lightweight container-based application isolation. CloudHub 2.0 includes advanced monitoring capabilities, enhanced networking capabilities, better scalability, and improved isolation with Private Spaces. It supports modern deployment patterns like containerization and simplifies environment management across regions. Customers upgrade to benefit from higher reliability, easier maintenance, and future-ready cloud-native infrastructure.

Upgrading and Migrating to CloudHub 2.0

To migrate your workloads from CloudHub to CloudHub 2.0, you need to set up your CloudHub 2.0 infrastructure and network connections. The CloudHub 2.0 upgrade tool is an in-app experience that guides customers to transition to CloudHub 2.0 with zero downtime.

One migration approach is to create new CloudHub 2.0 private spaces with configurations that differ from your existing CloudHub setup. Retain your infrastructure configuration by migrating your CloudHub dedicated Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to a CloudHub 2.0 private space with the in-product VPC upgrade tool. The tool is a good option because during the upgrade process from CloudHub VPC to CloudHub 2.0 Private Space, the environments associated with your VPC stay in sync with the environments associated with the upgraded CloudHub 2.0 Private Space to avoid configuration drift.

Due to their architectural differences and distinct interfaces, CloudHub 2.0 supports some features differently than CloudHub 1.0. Confirm which VPCs are eligible for the upgrade. Once you’ve confirmed that you’re eligible, upgrade your VPC via Anypoint Platform. Once the upgrade is complete, the private space is fully provisioned and you can start deploying applications to it. After migrating all your applications, delete your old VPC and any attached dedicated load balancers on CloudHub 1.0.

During the migration, you can continue to deploy and manage applications in your VPC to maintain business continuity. After the upgrade, your CloudHub 1.0 dedicated VPC is locked for any changes to prevent configuration drift. Make all changes in the newly created private space instead as any configuration changes carried over to the CloudHub 2.0 private space are applied to the CloudHub 1.0 VPC during the upgrade.

As a recap, upgrading to CloudHub 2.0 consists of two deliverables: the VPC upgrade and then upgrading the applications.

In this table, explore the differences in what each option is, why a user would choose them, what personas are involved, and what teams are involved.

VPC Upgrade	Application Upgrade (Traffic Switching)
What: Upgrade a CloudHub 1.0 (CH1) VPC to a CloudHub 2.0 (CH2) private space while cloning configuration and carrying over existing network connections like (TGW/VPN).	What: Enable the CH1 DLB/SLB to gradually divert traffic from CH1 app to a 1:1 linked CH2 application.
Why: Lowers barrier to entry by eliminating the work to get a customer's network and security approvals on new network connections and new CIDR blocks.	Why: External client applications that invoke the CH1 app do not need to change vanity URLs when it is replaced with CH2 app. Also, it enables incremental testing per application.
Persona: Infrastructure and Network Admin Persona	Persona: Application Developer Persona
Teams involved: CH1, CH2 infrastructure, CH2 spaces	Team involved: CH1, CH2 infra, CH2 Spaces, RTF, Application Manager

MuleSoft for Agentforce

The Agentforce Connector helps teams build smarter agents, faster. To get the most value out of AI agents, organizations need to be able to access the right data and systems. Often, the data is disconnected or historical, so seamless and secure access is critical to ensure agents deliver fast, accurate outcomes.

API Catalog

MuleSoft for Agentforce: API Catalog makes it seamless for developers and admins to use external APIs in Agentforce from MuleSoft, Salesforce, and Heroku, while helping to meet enterprise requirements for security and governance. This ensures that every API used in Agentforce and Salesforce is compliant. Simplify your path to automation by bringing APIs into API Catalog for Salesforce to view and manage your APIs and make them available to use in Salesforce.

Key features include:

Dynamic usage: Activate operations to use in your automations, such as flows, Apex code, and topic and agent actions.
Simple discovery: View and search a set of curated APIs and Topics available for consumption within Salesforce.
Effortless authentication: Authentication and credential management for MuleSoft APIs are seamlessly handled in the background.
Access management: API Catalog uses the SLA access requirements from MuleSoft, which helps API developers maintain control over their APIs.
Fine-grained controls: Salesforce developers and admins can select specific REST operations to enable as invocable actions.
Streamlined operations: API updates are automatically synced with API Catalog.

Teams can design, build, develop, and protect your APIs for AI agents on a single platform, which provides the best experience for developers. It also helps your enterprise ensure quality and security requirements are met at every stage of the development lifecycle.

Topic Center

MuleSoft for Agentforce: Topic Center is designed to empower Agentforce as key consumers of APIs, seamlessly integrating them into every stage of the API lifecycle. Topics make it easy to package a list of actions and instructions that inform how Agentforce can use a Mule API. They can execute actions both inside and outside of the Salesforce ecosystem and have rich metadata. This product simplifies the process for Agentforce to work with integrations across your business through topics, actions, and instructions.

Topics: A collection of paired actions and instructions that form a set of capabilities that Agentforce is then able to execute across third-party systems.
Actions: Jobs or tasks the agent is able to do. With MuleSoft for Agentforce: Topic Center, you can turn API calls into Agentforce actions.
Instructions: Instructions help Agentforce understand how to use the actions to fulfill a business process or workflow in the most effective way.

Sum It Up

Now you know all about the latest innovations like Managed Flex Gateway and CloudHub 2.0, which make it easier to deploy, secure, and scale your APIs with less operational effort. We’ve also introduced powerful tools like the Agentforce Connector, API Catalog, and Topic Center to help teams build smarter AI agents using secure, compliant APIs. Stay certified, stay updated, and take advantage of these tools to keep your skills sharp and your integrations seamless. Now it’s time to test your understanding of these topics and complete the quiz to maintain your MuleSoft Platform Architect certification.

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