Managing Cloud Data Planes

Introduction

Cloud Data Planes do all the heavy lifting of actually managing your requests: traffic proxying, access control, data transformation, logging and more.

Prerequisites

All user roles can edit, deploy, undeploy, restart, redeploy all deployments within a team. Only the Organisation Admin and the Team Admin can create or delete deployments.

Adding a new Cloud Data Plane

Watch our video on setting up a Control Plane and a Cloud Data Plane.

1. From the Deployments screen click Add Deployment
2. Enter a name for the new Gateway
3. Select Cloud Data Plane from the Type drop-down list
4. Select the Bundle Channel and Version
5. (Optional) Enter a custom domain if required
6. (Optional) Enable plugins if required

Edit Cloud Data Planes

You can edit the following Control Plane settings:

• Change the Gateway name
• Add a custom domain
• Change the Bundle Channel and Bundle Version
• Enable plugins

To edit an existing Cloud Data Plane:

1. On the Deployments screen, expand the Control Plane and click on the Cloud Data Plane to access the Cloud Data Plane overview screen.
2. Select Edit from the Deployed drop-down list

Upgrade Cloud Data Planes

To upgrade an existing Cloud Data Plane:

1. Go to the Cloud Data Plane settings using the Edit Cloud Data Planes instructions and scroll down to the Version section.
2. Select a Bundle Channel.

3. Next, select a Bundle Version.

4. To apply your changes, click the “Save and Re-Deploy” button located at the top right. After a few seconds, you will be redirected to the overview page of the Control Plane and a “Deploying” indicator button will appear.

5. A “Deployed” button indicates a successful upgrade.