The Cloud Integration Hub environment consists of user interface clients, Cloud Integration Hub service and repositories that are hosted on Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Hosting Services, and the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Secure Agent and Cloud Integration Hub connector that are located on Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
You can select to host the publication repository for the organization on-premises or on a private cloud. In that case, the repository is not hosted on Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Hosting Services but is installed and managed by the organization.
The following image shows the Cloud Integration Hub components:
Cloud Integration Hub contains the following components:
Cloud Integration Hub Web client
User interface to manage applications, topics, publications, and subscriptions, and to monitor publications, subscriptions, and events. Administrators use the Web client to create the organization in Cloud Integration Hub.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services user interfaces
User interfaces to define sources and targets and to create connections, mappings, and tasks.
Services that host the Cloud Integration Hub service and repositories. The services stores all task and organization information.
Cloud Integration Hub service
A service that manages publication and subscription processing in Cloud Integration Hub.
Cloud Integration Hub metadata and runtime repository
Database that stores metadata and runtime data for Cloud Integration Hub applications, topics, publications, subscriptions, and events.
Publication repository
Where Cloud Integration Hub stores published data or files until the retention period for the data or files expires. You can use the following types of publication repositories:
- Relational. Stores relational data. You can use a relational publication repository on a hosted or a private repository.
- File store. Stores files as-is. You can use a file store publication repository with an on-premises Secure Agent.
Data sources and targets
Sources and targets that you use to publish and consume data. You can use the following types of sources and targets:
- Database. Tables and columns.
- File. Binary, text, or unstructured files.
- Applications connections. Connection objects for applications.
