MuleSoft Training: Runtime Fabric on VMs

Hi @Raamachanthiran Chanemougam​ 

If I understand your question you are referring following 2 flavors of RTF.

1. RTF with MuleSoft Managed Kubernetes Appliance
2. RTF with Self managed Kubernetes (AKS)

RTF with MuleSoft Managed Kubernetes Appliance have following

Pros

1. As it comes with MuleSoft managed Kubernetes appliance, you need not to have expertise in Kubernetes. Basic understanding should be fine.

Cons

1. It needs additional Controllers (VMs) for each of your Kubernetes cluster. this will increase your infrastructure footprint by 30% to 40%.
2. It does not allow you to manage the AKS cluster, which means you can have only mule application on these clusters.

RTF with Self managed Kubernetes (AKS) have following

Pros

1. Don't require additional VMs for controllers. This is considerable saving on your infrastructure Capex.
2. Provide flexibility organizing your clusters as you own the Kubernetes management.

Cons

1. You must have Kubernetes capability in house.
2. Need to manage/maintain your Kubernetes stack, hence more Opex.

If you already have a inhouse Kubernetes capabilities and managing other services and operation on Kubernetes stack, then you can consider RTF on Self managed Kubernetes, else RTF with MuleSoft Kubernetes appliance could be wise choice.

Please consider Total cost of operation instead of just the infrastructure cost.

Please do let me know if this is helpful.

Regards,

Ranjeet Bhoyar

Response 1: With Mule 3 license you can deploy Mule 3 or Mule 4 applications. With Mule 4 license you can only deploy Mule 4 applications. In you RTF installation you can mix Mule 3 and Mule 4 applications. You can also have different versions of Mule. For example you can deploy App1 on Mule 3.9.3, App2 on Mule 4.2.2 and App3 on Mule 4.3.0 (I personnaly always recommend the latest version of Mule Runtime, for security reason and performance improvements)

Response 2: The Mule Licence Verifier is waiting an official license in Binary format. The Mule License verifier will convert the Mule License binary into a digested License (base64).

Regards,

Sébastien

Hi Lakshman,

Be carefull, the RTF course has been created with Mule 3 applications. (.zip file)

I does mean you need a Mule 3 trial license, in order to deploy Mule Apllications provided into the course.

The official process is the following:

• Install locally a Mule 3 Runtime (OnPrem)
• launch it with (./bin/mule or bin\mule.bat)
• get the license key from the file conf/muleLicenseKey.lic
• On the Runtime Fabric Controller node execute the command:
• sudo /opt/anypoint/runtimefabric/rtfctl apply mule-license '<LICENCE HERE>'

I created a trial license for you, I attached the command line to type on your RTF controller node.

Regards,

Sébastien

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

Could you also let me know how to identify the anypoint account used by rtinstall.bat and also, if possible, how to view the log file in the anypoint account when the VPC is created.

Thanks

Lakshman