="/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 Kubernetes Service,
which you can use instead of installing Istio manually.
Refer to <a href="https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-istio">Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Servi