ster">clusters</a>
or other infrastructure. The control plane may, itself, be deployed in a cluster, although not
in one of the clusters that is part of the mesh it&amp;rsquo;s controlling.
Its purpose is to cleanly separate the control plane from the data plane of a mesh.</p>
'>external control plane</span> deployment model which enables mesh operators to install and manage mesh control planes on separate external clusters. This deployment model allows a clear separation between mesh operators and mesh adm