Control Plane

Control Plane

📖 定义

Control Plane is the "brain" of distributed systems, responsible for managing configurations, formulating routing policies, and monitoring the status of the data plane. It does not handle actual user business traffic but issues commands to the data plane.

🔗 在 Higress 中的应用

Higress' control plane is responsible for converting Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway configurations into xDS configurations understandable by Envoy and distributing them to gateway instances.

💡 示例

  • 1 Kubernetes' API Server is the core of its control plane
  • 2 Istio's istiod component is responsible for issuing service governance policies
  • 3 Higress controller monitors K8s resource changes and updates gateway configurations

🔄 相关术语

常见问题

Control Plane 是什么?
Control Plane is the "brain" of distributed systems, responsible for managing configurations, formulating routing policies, and monitoring the status of the data plane. It does not handle actual user business traffic but issues commands to the data plane.
Higress 如何支持 Control Plane?
Higress' control plane is responsible for converting Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway configurations into xDS configurations understandable by Envoy and distributing them to gateway instances.

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