Skupper allows you to create a Virtual Application Network (VAN) enabling secure, location independent communication between systems including public cloud, private cloud, virtual machines (VMs), bare metal hosts, and mainframes.

Version 1 of Skupper, v1 branch is working in many production environments and has significantly reduced the time, effort and expense of deploying applications to a hybrid multicloud.

Highlights

The objective of the Skupper v2 is to better support a full declarative model so that applications and VANs can be more easily deployed in fully automated frameworks.

The release includes:

• The introducton of Custom Resource Definitions CRDs for a more intuitive and flexible declarative interfaces for users, with an equivalent implementation for Linux.
• Architectural improvements for the primary components (e.g. controller, cli, and non-kube executable)
• A flexible PKI implementation allowing users to easily provide their own certificates as required
• A network collector and console that is deployed separately from the site components
• Simpler integrations for centralized application network definition

Interoperability with Version 1

Skupper v2 sites are not interoperable with v1 sites. The plan is to provide tools to assist users to migrate their v1 installations to a v2 deployment as the release approaches.

Skupper v1 will continue to be maintained but no new significant features are planned.

Useful Links

Using Skupper v2

• Simple Declarative Example
• Network Observer Deployment
• Redis Example
• CLI Example
• Helm Charts

Questions and Feedback

For any questions, feedback or reporting of issues encountered using the v2 preview, please use the Skupper community mailing list or create a GitHub issue as described on the Skupper web site community page