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

Armon Dadgar (@armon), HashiCorp CTO and co-founder joins Aaron Schlesinger (@arschles) to school him on all things service meshes. You'll understand what a service mesh actually does, when and why it makes sense to use them, the role of observability, and the differences between data planes and control planes (and what's relevant to app developers).
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.

[@isaurabh2001]

First I crashed into networking dataplane. Then I came to know, they are different.

[@smkjason]

Amazing explanation. Thanks a ton.

[@8Trails50]

armon is the goat

[@johnnyc0707]

well done Armon!

[@danl.2626]

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