Organizations in highly regulated sectors face a unique challenge: modernizing their integration platforms while meeting strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance mandates.
To address this challenge, we are excited to showcase a powerful collaboration between MuleSoft and Broadcom that brings the full power of MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition (PCE) to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
By deploying Anypoint PCE on VCF, organizations can run the world’s leading integration platform entirely within their own data center without compromising performance, control, or compliance. VCF provides built-in VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), an upstream aligned, CNCF Certified Kubernetes runtime. VKS enables organizations to run modern containerized workloads alongside traditional VMs on a unified private cloud platform, delivering cloud-native agility while maintaining full operational control.
Unlike traditional iPaaS offerings that depend on a public cloud-based control plane, Anypoint PCE is built for complete isolation. It allows organizations to deploy the entire Anypoint Platform – including the runtime and management tools – entirely within their own infrastructure, making it well suited for air-gapped environments and regulated workloads.
Why run Anypoint PCE on vSpehere Kubernetes Service?
Running Anypoint PCE on vSphere Kubernetes Service delivers several key perks:
- Easier operations: VKS integrates directly with the familiar vSphere tooling your team already knows, reducing complexity and eliminating the need for specialized Kubernetes expertise. Plus, it handles the heavy lifting of setting up and managing clusters automatically simplifying operations for containerized Mule Runtimes as well.
- Top-tier security and compliance posture: This solution operates entirely within your private cloud. It is ideal for air-gapped environments and highly regulated industries (eg finance or healthcare), ensuring all data and management planes remain within your specified geographic boundaries. Running on private VCF infrastructure also gives organizations direct control over the entire operational stack, simplifying audits and allowing for the implementation of custom, high-assurance security policies that may not be available or feasible in a shared public cloud environment.
- Rock solid scaling: Since this validated solution is built on VKS, a CNCF-certified Kubernetes runtime, it benefits from inherent container orchestration features like automated failover (via Stolon for databases) and scalable object storage (via SeaweedFS).
- Unified management: Cloud admins can manage both, traditional virtual machines they may have in their existing infrastructure and modern containerized workloads (like MuleSoft) using a single VCF platform, streamlining infrastructure management and governance.
- Better bang for your buck: Running Anypoint PCE on VKS allows for better optimization and consolidation of infrastructure and avoidance of hidden public cloud costs. Streamlining management processes and accelerating deployment times, also enables organizations to achieve a faster time-to-value for their projects, which helps lower overall costs.
Your solution, delivered
MuleSoft’s Anypoint PCE on VMware Cloud Foundation with vSphere Kubernetes Service is the definitive solution for enterprises that need the full power of MuleSoft’s API-led connectivity and VMware’s enterprise cloud platform, but can’t or won’t connect to the public cloud. It is modernization without compromise for a true large-scale, cost-effective, and compliant digital transformation.
Check out the technical whitepaper to see the solution’s technical validation in action and start your modernization journey today.