Intro to Service Meshes: Data Planes, Control Planes, and More

Armon makes concepts real with specific examples and analogies, Aaron sees how to easily apply it to his favorite project (Kubernetes, of course) and they sign off with their favorite resources, so you can apply to your apps.

00:30 What is a service mesh?
01:26 Do I need a service mesh?
02:41 The role of observability
03:36 Control planes vs data planes
05:50 Service Mesh + Kubernetes

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[NateB]

I came here for the explanation of the difference between Data Planes and Control planes, and I leave here satisfied.

03:36 Control planes vs data planes

I think it borrows a bit from terms used by guys who used to work a lot with networking hardware.

In networking, there's a Data Plane (Or User Plane), Control Plane, and Management plane, largely analogous to the way Armand explained the Data Plane and Control Plane.

[danl.]

To brutally simplify, the control plane is the metadata central, while the data plane is where the data lives.