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title: External Control Plane
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test: n/a
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An external control plane is a [control plane](/docs/reference/glossary/#control-plane)
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that externally manages mesh workloads running in their own [clusters](/docs/reference/glossary/#cluster)
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or other infrastructure. The control plane may, itself, be deployed in a cluster, although not
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in one of the clusters that is part of the mesh it's controlling.
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Its purpose is to cleanly separate the control plane from the data plane of a mesh.
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