ref="/v1.11/img/icons.svg#callout-tip"/></svg></div><div class=content>IBM offers a <span class=term data-title="Managed Control Plane" data-body='<p>A managed control plane is an <a href="/docs/reference/glossary/#external-control-plane">external control plane</a>
that cloud providers manage for their customers.
Managed control planes reduce the complexity of user deployments
and typically guarantee some level of performance and availability.</p>'>managed control plane</span> add-on for the IBM Cloud Kuber