Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are directed at systems, methods, and architecture for configuring data planes based on clusters of nodes. A control plane links a plurality of microservices for a microservice architecture application. Each microservice includes a data plane that serves traffic for the microservice from the control plane and is processed at a node of a plurality of nodes. The control plane links a subset of the plurality of nodes in a cluster, such that the cluster is associated with a related set of microservices and data planes. The control plane updates configurations of nodes in the cluster to a latest configuration. The control plane sends the latest configuration to each data plane of the cluster. Each data plane of the cluster caches the latest configuration on a local storage disk of an associated node.