Control Plane

Kind: artifact

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:control-plane

Severity: contextual

Scope: platform, infrastructure, distributed system

Canonical: Ontology

Descriptive data about the desired state of a distributed runtime, held in one place and applied to every node through a management interface.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Consumer-Driven Contracts and before Orchestration.

Requires

• Management API
• Policy

Reinforces

• Governance
• Orchestration

Enables

• Centralized Control of Distributed Runtime

Conflicts with

• Fully Decentralized Control

In tension with

• Availability

Tensions

• Control Plane / Availability

Contracts

• Control Plane

Violated by

• Scattered Configuration

Refactored by

• Management API
• Policy as Code

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Reinforced by

• Leader Election

Linked from

• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Core Vocabulary
• Quality Attributes
• Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions