Common terms in the docs

WORK IN PROGRESS

General terms

Control plane

Data plane

(data plane proxy, data plane instance, data plane node)

Service

(Service object vs service)

Service package, version, implementation

Route

(Route object vs route)

Upstream

(Upstream object vs upstream service)

Runtime

DB-less mode vs database-backed

Hybrid mode

Product and component names

• Kong Konnect platform (Konnect)
• Konnect SaaS
• Kong Mesh (Mesh, service mesh)
• Kong for Kubernetes; Kong on Kubernetes Enterprise
• Kubernetes Ingress Controller/Kong Ingress Controller (KIC)
• decK
• Kong Gateway (gateway, API gateway)
• Kong Gateway (OSS)
• Insomnia
• Kuma
• Dev Portal (developer portal)
• Vitals