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Data Plane

What is a data plane?

The data plane is a layer of service proxies that manage application-level network traffic. Data plane typically operate on Layer 7 (application) traffic, although they may also operate at Layer 4 (transport) traffic as well.

For example

Popular data plane proxies include Envoy Proxy, NGINX, and HAProxy.

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