🔍What is MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and its uses?

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Anypoint Platform is a unified, hybrid, highly productive integration platform that allows developers to create a seamless application network of applications, data, and devices.
Runtime to run and deploy our applications in the cloud or on-premise.

Tools and framework for creating an API and building simpler Mule Applications (for complex applications we go for Anypoint Studio).
Library to store our assets (APIs and applications) where we can view and test them, and it can be reused by other developers in the organization.

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Design Center
A Design center is the development environment for a Mule application as well as for our API specification. In Design Center, we can create API's with the help of RAML (RESTful API Modeling Language), a YAML based language, and simple Mule Applications in the flow designer component.

Flow designer

Anypoint Flow Designer is a simple, low-code, web-based interface, optimised to accelerate the time to build integrations.

Get step-by-step prompts that guide your integration process
Reuse templates or connectors to accelerate development
Map data automatically using machine learning-based recommendations
Debug your integrations visually in real-time
Collaborate with users and get support from seasoned integrator

Anypoint Exchange
Anypoint Exchange provides us the benefit of being able to share, discover, and incorporate assets and resources into our Integration or Application.

It is used for:

• Creating API portals


• View and test our APIs using Mocking service


• Simulate data to API, also called as Mocking Service


• Create and Publish assets


• Anypoint Exchange is like a marketplace of resources such as Connectors, Templates, Examples, APIs (REST, SOAP, HTTP), API spec fragments, and much more.

Access Management
Access Management configures access and permissions within your organisation and, depending on the access level, manages the users and their roles.

An admin of your organisation or admin of business groups, you can enable, disable, or delete users. You can also invite new users and also manage existing users of your organisation.

API Manager
API Manager is the component of Anypoint Platform that helps in managing the APIs for an organisation. API Manager helps us to apply different policies to our APIs that limit its use and secure it from external users.

The automated policies feature inside the API Manager allows the administrator to apply the same set of policies to all the APIs deployed to an environment in an organisation. It helps the user to deploy the API with confidence as he no longer has to apply policies to the API and he knows that the environment in which he is deploying will have necessary policies applied to it.

Runtime Manager
Runtime Manager allows us to run, deploy, and manage our deployed applications from a central location, whether they are running in CloudHub or on-premise or on the Runtime fabric.

Runtime Manager is specially designed for Mule Applications for deploying them to various available Mule runtime instances in CloudHub virtual worker or an on-premise server or Runtime fabric.

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Anypoint Visualizer
Anypoint Visualizer displays views of different aspects of the application network graph. It provides a real-time graphical representation of the APIs and the Mule applications that are running and discoverable.

It collects the data from the APIs, Mule applications, and proxies deployed to CloudHub or standalone mule runtime engine to discover all incoming and outgoing connections through a plugin.

Anypoint Monitoring
Understanding the state of your infrastructure is very important for ensuring the reliability and stability of your services.

Therefore, Anypoint Monitoring provides visibility into integration across your Application Network graph. It provides feedback from the Mule flows and components in your application network graph.

Secret Manager
Secret Manager uses secure vault technology to store and control access to private keys, passwords, certificates, and other secrets.

Use Secret Manager to write, read, manage your secret, keys, Transport Layer security Certificate (TLS), and many other documents.