Managing Cloud Data Planes

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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 Organization 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.

Note

The number of Cloud Data Planes you can add is dependent on your plan

  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

Note

The use of custom domains is dependent on your plan

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

Cloud Data Plane drop-down

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.

Bundle channel drop-down

  1. Next, select a Bundle Version.

Bundle version drop-down

  1. 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.

Deploying notification

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

Deployed notification