From dec69f0b69bc58d3e8a8888859f11d91438a8c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Budinsky Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 13:02:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Glossary improvements (#4877) * Glossary improvements * tweaks * control plane tweak * clarify control plane source * trailing spaces * Update content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md Co-Authored-By: Rigs Caballero * Update content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md Co-Authored-By: Rigs Caballero * Update content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md Co-Authored-By: Rigs Caballero --- content/en/docs/reference/glossary/control-plane.md | 4 ++-- .../en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md | 8 ++++++++ content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/control-plane.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/control-plane.md index a3b216f50e..6d9277d67a 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/control-plane.md +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/control-plane.md @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ title: Control Plane --- -A control plane is a set of one or more instances that share the -same configuration source. The control plane configures the mesh or a subset of +A control plane is a set of system services that configure the mesh or a subset of the mesh to manage the communication between the workload instances within. +All instances of a control plane in a single mesh share the same configuration source. diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a3562d13e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +title: Managed Control Plane +--- + +A managed control plane is a [control plane](/docs/reference/glossary/#control-plane) +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. diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md index 5d0bfc674c..068fdf6403 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ A *service mesh* or simply *mesh* is an infrastructure layer that enables managed, observable and secure communication between [workload instances](/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance). -Service names combined with a namespace are unique within a mesh. For example, +Service names combined with a namespace are unique within a mesh. +In a [multi-cluster](/docs/reference/glossary/#multi-cluster) mesh, for example, the `bar` service in the `foo` namespace in `cluster-1` is considered the same service as the `bar` service in the `foo` namespace in `cluster-2`.