A Consul deployment uses Kubernetes. Which component replaces the traditional Consul client agent on Kubernetes to handle data plane functions such as service registration and health checks, while reducing per-pod resource overhead?

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B. Consul Dataplane. Consul Dataplane is the lightweight component designed specifically for Kubernetes deployments that takes over the data plane responsibilities (service registration, health checks, proxy management) previously handled by the Consul client agent, reducing resource overhead. Option c is wrong because the Envoy sidecar proxy handles the actual traffic proxying but is managed by Consul Dataplane, not a replacement for it.

A Consul deployment uses Kubernetes. Which component replaces the traditional Consul client agent on Kubernetes to handle data plane functions such as service registration and health checks, while reducing per-pod resource overhead?

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