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In a typical Kubernetes setup, every cluster ships with its own dedicated control plane — meaning at least 3 nodes per cluster just for the control plane itself. Multiply that across dev, staging, and production environments, and you’re burning through resources before your first workload even lands. This is the problem Hosted Control Planes were built to solve. Instead of running the API server, etcd, and controllers on dedicated nodes per cluster, HCP runs all of them inside a central management cluster. The result is fewer VMs, lower costs, simpler upgrades, and a single pane of control acr