We wrote already about how enterprises need a management plane to more easily https://www.nginx.com/blog/shifting-security-tools-left-for-safer-apps/ and empower a much greater pool of users and roles to take control of infrastructure and application deployments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebraun/ No group stands to benefit more from a management plane than developers.

The management plane is a layer above the control plane that removes the need for developers to become an expert in networking, security and APIs.

A management plane empowers line developers to accomplish all of this without having a deep understanding or mastery of how to work native data plane configuration files and policies for firewalls, networking, API management and application performance management.

This is how management planes can become a happy ops medium that saves developers days or weeks of time wasted on configuration management, security design and more.

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