# NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nginx-service-mesh/control-plane-api/  
**Provider:** NGINX Service Mesh — https://apis.io/providers/nginx-service-mesh/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/api-usage/

NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane API is published by [NGINX Service Mesh](https://apis.io/providers/nginx-service-mesh/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Control Plane, Kubernetes, and REST. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The NGINX Service Mesh control plane exposes a REST API used by the `nginx-meshctl` CLI to manage mesh configuration, sidecar injection, certificate authority operations, traffic policies, and resource lookups. The API is internal to the cluster and is not published as a public OpenAPI document; its surface is documented through the API Usage guide and the `nginx-meshctl` reference.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/api-usage/
- **CLIReference** — https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/nginx-meshctl/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-service-mesh
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nginx-service-mesh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Control Plane, Kubernetes, REST

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