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 <grca@google.com>

* Update content/en/docs/reference/glossary/service-mesh.md

Co-Authored-By: Rigs Caballero <grca@google.com>

* Update content/en/docs/reference/glossary/managed-control-plane.md

Co-Authored-By: Rigs Caballero <grca@google.com>
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Frank Budinsky 2019-09-03 13:02:31 -04:00 committed by Istio Automation
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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.

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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.

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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`.