Can&#x27;t help but feel that &#x27;control plane&#x27; is the new &#x27;shell script&#x27;: I never heard this term until recently, and it seems to be on the hype-train, certainly in Silly-Valley.<p>I wonder, does that Google historical search-frequency analyzer thang let you do geographic breakdowns? Anyone else remember HP-issued SNMP-based management software from the 1990s: control plane indeed! I&#x27;d wager this is part of what inspired Nagios.