Skupper concept overview

Sites and networks

Skupper's job is to provide connectivity for applications that have parts running in multiple locations and on different platforms.

A site represents a particular location and a particular platform. It's a place where you have real running workloads.

In a distributed application, those workloads need to communicate with other workloads in other sites. Skupper uses links between sites to provide site-to-site communication.

When a set of sites are linked, they function as one application-focused network.

Learn more about sites, platforms, links, and networks.

Service exposure

Sites and links establish the network transport, but there is one more step...

Learn more about listeners, connectors, and routing keys.