Slack as a "control plane" is quite the concept, giving operational power to more people around the company through Slack can be a two-edged sword though.

Now, aside from the implicit risk that this might offer, if Slack acts as the "Control plane" for DevOps, what's the platform's "Data plane"?

Is it right to assume that in order to be independent from Slack we'd need to rely on CTO.ai's own infrastructure and resources? I.e. the data plane where DevOps "effectively happens"