Different options for deploying a MuleSoft application to Runtime Fabric

MuleSoft provides multiple ways of deploying an application to Runtime Fabric. Every option can be integrated with a CI/CD pipeline so that a MuleSoft application can be automatically deployed to Runtime Fabric. Let’s explore all the options that can be used to deploy applications to CloudHub.

The Mule Maven plugin

The Mule Maven plugin is an important Maven plugin for deploying, undeploying, and packaging MuleSoft applications into Runtime Fabric. Let’s discuss it further. The following Mule Maven plugin can be configured in the POM.xml file of your application with all the attributes that are needed to deploy and run the application in Runtime Fabric:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>mule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.8.6</version>
  <extensions>true</extensions...